Clarion 1980-03-21 Vol 55 No 20

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Welcome Spring!
In the 50-degree heat wave Wednesday Paul Bjork chose to cool
off in the creek serging from snow-melt.
Gerald Healy, the one on the right, received his Ph.D. after working on it for 13 years (Photo by
Doug Barkey).
Bethel named heir to Montana tract
e Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 20 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN March 21, 1980
Healy completes doctorate
by Jay Stuart Russell and Roger
Smolik
Students on the five-year plan,
move over. Make room for Gerald
Healy. If you think getting a B.A.
degree in five or six years is a long
time, consider yourself lucky.
Gerald Healy has been working on
his Ph.D. degree for 13 years.
"It sounds like an incredible
amount of time to the average lay-man,
but I once heard a statistic
that the average Ph.D. program
takes 11 years. I just helped the
average out a little bit."
Healy, who is an associate pro-fessor
of English at Bethel, has
taught here for 21 years. Prior to
that, he was a high school teacher
in South Dakota for five years.
He received his B.A. degree
from Sioux Falls College in Eng-lish
in 1950, and his M.A. degree
in English from the University of
South Dakota. Now he has his
Ph.D. from the University of
Minnesota.
Why did Healy take a long time
to complete his degree? "I started
my Ph.D.. program late, as I
coached for 15 years; four years in
high school, and 11 years at Be-thel.
This delayed my program."
Healy said that he has had only
one sabbatical during the time he
taught at Bethel full time. "I had
many other obligations that didn't
leave much time for the writing
Dr. Ted Ward, professor of
curriculum research in the College
of Education at Michigan State
University, will speak at Bethel as
part of the Staley Lecture series on
March 24-25.
Each year the Staley series br-
Ted Ward
and study of a paper."
Healy completed the oral exam-ination
of his paper on Feb. 11,
which was the last academic hur-dle
of the process. "I felt no over-whelming
sense of relief that
you'd think there would be, be-cause
there were other deadlines
for getting the paper finally proof-read,
and getting it out to the bin-
-dery."
Healy's dissertation topic was
"Role-taking Development
Through Children's Literature."
"The study had to do with one's
capacity to see other people and
other situations from a point of
view other than one's own," he
said. "It involved taking a per-spective
different from one's
own."
"Children typically develop this
skill at ages 9, 10, and 11. The stu-dy
tried to encourage, foster, nur-ture,
and develop that skill in fifth
grade children through the
medium of children's literature."
What were the results? "It
didn't work. Research has proven
the potential for it to occur was
there, but we were trying to make
it happen; we have no way of
knowing now whether it's there
through the use of children's liter-ature.
"After my experience, after the
literature I read, I question that. I
think it's perhaps far less true. Re-search
has demonstrated that
reading itself is a very limited in-ings
a renowned scholar for a ser-ies
of chapel lectures to the cam-pus.
Ward has been a guest lectur-er
and consultant in numerous
colleges and educational institu-tions,
ranging from medical
schools to theological seminaries.
Ward is most widely known for
his research and writings in two
aspects of human development:
moral values development and
nonformal education. With the
support of the Lilly Endowment,
he established the Values Develop-ment
Education Center at MSU.
Ward has also been concerned
with third-world development and
was cited for his work in this area
by the Dag Hammerskjold Foun-dation
(Sweden) in 1975.
Some of Ward's currently avail-able
publications include: "Values
Begin at Home," Victor, 1979;
"Effective Learning Through
Nonformal Education," MSU,
1974; and "Memo for the Under-ground,"
Creation House, 1971.
Monday, March 24, Ward will
speak on "Implications of the
Current Moral Development Re-search,"
and Tuesday, "Educa-tion
that is Christian."
fluence in value making."
Healy thinks his dissertation
has been a successful study, how-ever.
"When I expressed regret at
the lack of results in the final stu-dy,
two or three of the committee
members pointed out that while I
did not get statistically significant
results, the research did contri-bute
to the body of literature that
bears on the subject..
"The fact that there were no re-sults
are results anyway. The re-sults
were that short-term inter-vention,
given these conditions,
did not work."
Now that Healy's Ph.D. pro-gram
is complete, he'll have more
time to spend on one of his favor-ite
hobbies: small farming. Healy
has an 80-acre hobby farm located
about 70 miles north of Bethel,
near Pine City.
"It's the largest gift Bethel has
ever received," said David Liss-ner,
director of campus devel-opment,
of a barren 48,640-acre
tract (nearly the size of Minnea-polis
and St. Paul) in the heart of
Big Sky country, Montana.
Suggestions for the land's use,
which have already come in, in-clude
the following: Build addi-tional
dorms (this would not be
much further than some student
housing now).... Establish a
branch campus for the study of
agriculture and mineralogy (Be-thel
A&M)....Have Doc Dalton
take a group of students out for
an Interim course, "Survival in a
Hostile Environment,"....Lease
the land out as a dumping ground
for radioactive waste or set up
conference facilities for Founders
Week, or both.
Seriously speaking, Bethel is the
trustee for this property which lies
in 3 counties, 100 miles north of
Billings, Montana. "We manage
the property and pay the owner an
income which is 6 per cent of the
value of the tract," said Lissner.
When the owner dies, the land be-comes
Bethel's.
At this time, the surface is rent-ed
to eight ranchers for use as
grazing land, and several oil com-panies
are exploring for mineral
deposits. The donor firmly be-lieves
there is oil on the property.
Valued at $3.25 million, the
land had nearly doubled in price
since Bethel was named its heir in
1976.
"I don't think there's a tree on
the place," said Lissner. This bar-ren,
dry, cattle-grazing tract is
east of the mountains, west of
good wheat-growing country,
south of one major oil field and
north of another.
What will Bethel do with the
land once they own it? "We
wouldn't consider disposing of the
land until all possibility of finding
minerals had h-en exhausted,"
Lissner said. Thi!- would be in
keeping with the owner's wishes.
The land can be seen as a form of
security for the $6 million debt Be-thel
has on this campus which has
no visible means of support.
With the uncertain state of the
economy, fluctuating inflation
rates and the prospect of mineral
deposits, the future of the land is
unknown.
Ted Ward lectures
in Staley series
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editorial
Board chooses well,
mini-editor selected
Spirit Week: Letting the Spirit do the fighting?
letters
Faulty information
Clouds policing issue
I would like to comment on
your editorial in the March 7
Clarion concerning "policing" in
athletics.
Your general intent is well taken
but I think you printed some faul-ty
information.
First of all I think that you re-ceived
some wrong information
Paul Greely concerning the hockey games in
On Tuesday evening the student senate announced selections for
media chief positions and the campus coordinators for the 1980-81
school year.
Though the media positions drew few applicants, the selection pro-cedure
of the communications board was thorough and the final ap-pointments
seem well-advised. Next year the positions will be filled as
follows:
Passages coordinator: Sandy Covert
KABY general manager: Kraig Klaudt
Clarion editor: Joy Banta
Roster coordinator: position vacant
Campus coordinators: Cindy Stipe & Frank Sanza
We applaud the work of the communications board in choosing the
media chiefs and the ad hoc committee which reviewed the many appli-cants
and chose Stipe and Sanza. We feel these people will capably fill
their positions.
The appointment of Banta was inevitable as she stands only five feet
tall. Every Clarion editor since Paul Healey has been of smaller stature
than the previous. Banta will be ably assisted by six-foot-one Jay Russell
as associate editor.
For the second year in succession no one applied to head the Roster.
Perhaps it would be better to contract production of the directory to an
outside company when student interest is lacking.
The Clarion also heartily appreciates the advent of spring.
Memorial
to two close friends of Bethel
Paul Greely
1954-1980
"Like I said, I don't believe that God is
through with me yet. But if He is, I guess you
could say I believe in tomorrow no matter what
happens. I believe in tomorrow whether or not
I'm alive on this earth or in heaven with the
Lord."
Paul Greely
May, 1977
Cameron G. Booth
1892-1980
A noted Minnesota artist, long-time friend of
Bethel and donor of modern artwork.
the Clarion
Vol. 55, No. 20 Bethel College March 21, 1980
The Clarion is published weekly by the students of Bethel Col-lege.
Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion
staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Paul Olsen, Editor
Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Art Gibbens , Production
Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager,
Jay Russell, Editorial Assistant, Carolyn Olson, Graphics
Doug Barkey, Photography Editor, Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts
Writers, run
in own back
Dear Editor,
As long as everyone else is tak-ing
time to comment on the Clar-ion's
content I'd like to get in the
discussion. Most recently I got a
kick out of Jim Feleen's letter
about Shelly Nielsen's anti-health
columns.
I look at the controversy from
two sides. I am at once a former
distance runner and a former
Clarion columnist. I gave up ser-ious
distance running to better
myself in other areas. I still enjoy
running.
I'd be happy to give up writing,
but that's my only reliable means
of financial support, and it pays
more than distance runnning. I
still enjoy reading Clarion col-umns.
There was a time when I ran
competitively. I ran to beat the
clock and my opponents. Now I
just run for enjoyment. I enjoy
the countryside, the cool morning
air and especially the healthy body
that running encourages.
And there is a time when I read
straight news. I read for informa-tion.
But I also like to read for en-joyment.
I like the creative ways
phrases can be put together, and I
.l.i.k e• t.o . l augh.
ners excel
yard, maybe
I laugh at Shelly Nielsen's col-umns.
She's funny. She's very cle-ver
in the way she says things.
Some people don't understand
that. They take it just as it ap-pears.
They don't see the value of
creative writing and of laughing at
ourselves.
In the same way some people
don't -understand running. They
see it just as it appears. It looks
like hard work and pain. They're
too lazy to find out how good it
can be. They don't see the real
value.
(Please forgive me, fellow wri-ters,
for being so dull here. I don't
want to be too clever for non-wri-ters
to understand. I'm not being
condescending. I'm trying to be
purely straightforward.)
I know Jim isn't trying to make
others feel bad by running. He's
good at it and he should run.
And I know Shelly isn't trying
to make others feel bad by what
she writes. It's all in fun. She's a
very good writer and she should
write.
And both of them will be better
off if they keep doing what they
do well and don't take ignorant
criticism personally.
Fair is fair,
David Shelley
Chicago. I question your source
of information concerning our
team being involved "'beyond the
call of duty"' in that fight. That
was a quote in the article and I
question the source greatly. Did
you receive this information from
someone who was at the game or
was it from rumors? Our team in-volvement
in the fight was inves-tigated.
I was at the game and I
certainly saw no over-involvement
on our team's part. They were at-tacked.
Secondly, you do not define
the way you use the term "polic-ing."
If it is not dealing with each
case individually, what is it? There
are rules for hockey, both teams
and MIAC, to deter the contin-uous
fights or fighting. These do
include game suspensions. Did
you check with the athletic depart-ment
about each team's "in-house
rules?"
Another one of your concerns
was that of glorifying God. The
members of the Bethel hockey
team were trying to act as peace-makers
during that fight. One of
the refs was so impressed with the
attitude of our players that he said
he didn't know what we had, but
he wanted to find out more about
it. I think that is glorifying to
God.
Also, how glorifying is it to
God to stand by and watch your
brother getting beat on by three
other people? Is it glorifying for
you to not help him to escape?
Our players were a witness in ac-tion
and in attitude in Chicago.
I suggest that in the future you
be a bit more discriminating in the
incidents you use to illustrate your
views, and also that you define
your terms from the start so as to
avoid complications.
Sincerely,
Jan Billings
Dear Editor,
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Grant helps faculty development Greenhorn
by Gloria Martin
Early this past October, Bethel
submitted a proposal to the Bush
Foundation requesting a matching
grant of approximately $10,000.
The proposal was accepted and
the money has been set aside for
Bethel. This money will assist Be-thel
in paying the personnel and
support costs involved in the pre-paration
of a two-fold program
for faculty development.
Bethel's Faculty Development
committee felt a concern for a
program which would assist the
faculty in improving themselves.
The two areas of concern in which
the program would deal with are:
1) upgrading faculty writing skills,
to in turn improve those of the
Correction
clarifies
accusation
Dear editor,
We would like to clear up a
slight misunderstanding which ap-peared
in our letter to the editor,
last week. The letter should
have been written as follows:
After attending the senate meet-ing
Tuesday we came away deeply
disappointed with the proceedings
handling the misappropriation of
funds directed by the president of
the student body. These funds
were to be used for his attendance
at an AAES convention in Los
Angeles.
While impressed by the senate's
concerned discussion of the mat-ter,
we feel that necessary action
was not taken. Perhaps the mo-tion
to relieve the president of his
duties was too extreme.
As concerned members of the
student body, we think that a pre-cedent
must be set to deal with ir-responsible
actions by our student
representatives.
This incident discredits the inte-grity
of senate and the Bethel
community and should be dealt
with as a lifestyle infraction.
With sincere concern,
Becky Dye
Susan Hanson
students, and 2) improving the
ability of the faculty to deal pro-perly
with gifted students.
Through Faculty Development
activities, attempts are presently
being made at dealing with these
areas of concern. However, with
only the use of Bethel funding the
program is making little progress.
With the grant from the Bush
Foundation the planning for a
large scale program can get under-way.
Shortly, Bethel will submit ano-ther
proposal requesting a grant
for the actual operation of the
program. This grant could be as
letters
Dear Editor,
The panel discussion on the
draft in Thursday's chapel turned
out to have three spokesmen who
themselves would not participate
in combat, and only one who
would. So to redress the imba-lance,
I thought I would explain in
writing why I personally am will-ing
to participate in combat, and
even to kill others if necessary, to
defend my country against aggres-sion.
My primary argument comes
from Romans 13:4. There Paul
says that the civil authority, even
in putting wrongdoers to death (to
"bear the sword" in vs. 4 must in-clude
this), is "the servant of God
to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer."
Paul says this person is "God's
servant for your good." So it is
not wrong for a Christian police-man
to kill, if necessary, to pro-tect
the lives of others; it is right.
He is "God's servant." He is not
sinning; he is doing "good," ac-cording
to God's own words.
If I became a soldier fighting to
defend my country (my neighbors,
my wife, my children), I would
think of this verse. I would pray
that God would help me to
remember that even in killing to
stop evil aggression, I was his
"servant," doing "good," doing
what He commanded me to do.
Remembering this, I would do it
with a clear conscience, and, I
think, with God's full approval.
I do not think this would be ea-
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much as $180,000 over a period of
three years, which would give Be-thel
$60,000 annually to assist in
the program's operating costs.
Bethel is very much aware of
the constant need for faculty de-velopment
growth. It wants to im-prove
the education that it has to
offer through programs that will
concentrate on specific, clearly
laid-out needs.
The upcoming program to assist
faculty members in improving
themselves will not only enrich the
knowledge of faculty members,
but also enrich the educational ef-ficiency
of the institution as a
whole.
sy. I remember how I felt a strong
revulsion at killing even the wood-chuck
that was destroying my gar-den,
and I think that if I ever kill-ed
another human being I would
feel intense emotional turmoil
and great sorrow. This is because
there should not have to be killing
in God's creation.
Yet the existence of aggressive,
violent evil in the world makes it
necessary for God to restrain evil.
And Rom. 13 tells me that He has
chosen to do that through the use
of force by civil governments.
When using force to defend their
citizens, -they are "God's
servants" and doing "good" (vs.
14). So I would pray for strength
to do what God wanted me to do,
and I would serve Him even in the
tragic and difficult situation of
war.
Here at Bethel I have gained
new respect and appreciation for
my Christian brothers and sisters
who hold a pacifist position. I am
thankful for their deep desire to
follow Christ, and for the courage
and openness with which they
hold their position, Nevertheless,
I differ with them on their under-standing
of Scripture.
The command "you shall not
kill" (Ex. 20:13) does not prohibit
killing in war. The Hebrew verb
used here (ratsach) is never used in'
the Bible of killing in war. It is
mostly used of premeditated mur-der
and manslaughter, while other
Hebrew words are used of killing
in war. So the NIV and NASB
rightly translate Ex. 20:13, "You
shall not murder."
is in error Both enemy love and
the taking of life by government
are commanded. Therefore, the
command to love one's enemy
does not exclude killing in war,
for God is not inconsistent.
When Jesus commands turning
the other cheek (Matt. 5:39), He is
prohibiting taking personal re-venge,
or taking the law into our
own hands. This is similar to
Rom. 12:19, "Beloved, never
avenge yourselves, but leave it to
the wrath of God." Yet Paul goes
on six verses later to explain that
God's wrath can be and should be
carried out by civil goverments
(Rom. 13:4). So I cannot take the
law into my own hands and seek
personal revenge, but I can serve
as a policeman or soldier and
thereby, as "God's servant,"
"execute His wrath on the wrong-doer."
Can a Christian be a soldier and
still obey God? Certainly. Corne-lius,
a Roman centurion, was a
"devout man who feared God"
(Acts 10:2), and Peter im-plied
that he was one who "does
what is right" (Acts 10:35). When
soldiers asked John the Baptist
what they should do to repent and
obey God, he didn't tell them to
resign the military or not to kill,
but he said, "Be content with
your wages," (Lk. 3:14), this im-plying
that they should continue
being soldiers.
We must look to the life of Je-sus
for our example, but we must
look at His whole life, not just
part of it. Jesus Himself did not
serve as a policeman or soldier
while on earth the first time. But
He will someday assume that role.
He will come again with a "sharp
sword" to "smite the nations"
(Rev. 19:15), and the armies of
heaven, "arrayed in fine linen,
white and pure," will follow Him
"on white horses" (Rev. 19:14).
If you are a Christian, you will
be a part of that conquering army,
and so will I. If you will follow Je-sus
as a combat soldier then, as
His servant and doing good,
should you not also be willing to
follow Him now if your country is
attacked, serving Him as a combat
soldier, thus becoming "God's
servant" and doing "good"?
Wayne .Grudem
Assiiidni Professor of Theology-
Christians should never think
they are disobeying this com-mandment
when they, as police-men
or soldiers, must kill to de-fend
others, for this command-ment,
rightly translated, does not
prohibit that kind of killing.
Nor does the command, "love
your enemies" (Matt. 5:44), rule
out participation in war. Here I
will ask again the question no
Christian pacifist has yet answered
for me: Was it possible for Old
Testament believers to love their
neighbors as themselves (Lev.
19:18) and still put to death those
neighbors who were guilty of great
sins (Lev. 20:2)? God commanded
both of these. So was it possible to
love someone and yet stone him to
death with stones, as these verses
command?
If my pacifist friend answers
no, then I will respond that his
position makes God contradict
Himself, and such a position must
be rejected. But if my pacifist
friend answers yes, then I will re-spond
that it must also be possible
in the New Testament to love my
enemy and still with great sorrow,
put him to death if it is the only
way to keep him from taking the
lives of others. I await an answer
to this question.
It seems to me that too often
people bring their own definition
of "love" into this discussion,
and fail to let the Bible itself de-fine
what God means by love.
People assume that God's idea of
love for enemies excludes the tak-ing
of life, but the Bible itself
shows that this definition of love
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by Ken Wanovich
Next year if you want to learn
"arcing," a Biblical exegetic tech-nique
taught by Dr. John Piper,
associate professor of Biblical
Studies, you will have to go to
Bethlehem Baptist on a Sunday
morning.
Piper has accepted the call to be
the senior pastor of Bethlehem
Baptist Church in downtown Min-neapolis.
For Piper, the desire to
preach has risen and fallen ever
since he came to Bethel six years
ago.
Last fall while on sabbatical,
Piper started writing a book on
the ninth chapter of Romans.
During this time he studied the Bi-ble
every day, all day. As a result,
his desire to preach rose and did
not go down.
"It took the form of a desire to
proclaim the wealth that we have
in the Word and the stupendous
John Piper
reality of God," said Piper. "It
came so powerfully to me that I
felt I had to find a job where my
major task would be to proclaim
that Word."
Piper is a graduate of Wheaton
College where he majored in Eng-lish
literature. He then went to
Fuller Seminary. Through two ex-periences
there as a Sunday
School teacher and an assistant
teacher in Greek, he received a lot
of positive confirmation that God
had given him a gift to teach, and
that he should pursue that gift.
In the summer of 1974 he re-ceived
his Doctor of Theology de-gree
from the University of Mun-ich,
Germany, and came straight
to Bethel.
Last October, Piper made it
known to the Baptist General
Conference that he would consi-der
taking a church. Bethlehem
was the first to contact him, and
after candidating there, he accept-ed
their call to be senior pastor.
"I think the main thing that
they wanted was a strong pulpit
ministry," said Piper. "They've
had a strong pulpit ministry in the
past and they thought that was
crucial for the future. I suppose
they thought that would be my
forte. I see myself primarily as a
minister of the Word doing
preaching, teaching, and admin-istering:
planning, creating, lead-ing
people in worship."
Piper's goal in the liberal arts
college is to help students learn
how to think for themselves, to
dig in and interpret Scripture for
themselves.
"But there comes a time," said
Piper, "when the stuff you are
trying to help students think clear-ly
about is so preachable and so
beautiful that another form,
by Mari Broman
Once a prospective sculpture
major at the University of Min-nesota,
Bonita Wohl switched to
work for the master's degree in
film-making which eventually led
her to Bethel. Wohl teaches two
three-dimensional design classes
for Stewart Luckman who is on
sabbatical this semester.
Invited once to speak to one of
Dale Rott's classes. Wohl's major
contact with Bethel was when she
shoWed a film she had made at the
Christians in the Visual Arts
namely the form of a sermon, be-comes
more appropriate."
"I feel God has given me an ir-resistable
urge to preach the Word
in worship settings: to minister to
a flock of people and see the
Word take root there and change
lives."
Piper's preaching style will be
similar to his classroom teaching
style. In the classroom, Piper asks
questions and makes his students
do part of the answering. Behind
the pulpit, he will ask questions
and do the answering himself.
"The way I study the Bible,"
said Piper, "is to ask questions of
the text to try to get out its mean-ing.
It is natural that my sermons
will be a systematic exposition of
the meaning of Biblical texts. That
is what I think good preaching
is."
The move to the pastorate is
viewed by Piper as a permanent
move. "The prospect of devoting
myself to one flock of people and
investing myself in one place for a
lifetime is really attractive, but
then, 'not my will, but Thine be
done.' "
July 13 will be the first Sunday
for Piper behind the pulpit. "I
would like to extend an invitation
to all in the Bethel community to
visit Bethlehem," said Piper.
convention here last spring.
Having moonlighted for the
past couple of months, Wohl re-cently
finished a job as assistant to
the filth curator at the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis.
Her prior teaching experience
includes summer school at a
Canadian university and a course .
at the University of Wisconsin,
Superior. Wohl finds that stu-dents
at a Christian college are
"more willing to be idealistic with
you. You can stir up the class-room
on all different levels."
According to Wohl, this ad-vances
the development of creativ-ity,
but also has its drawbacks.
She said students tend to follow
whatever teachers say, and one
must "be careful not to give too
many answers."
Wohl has "high hopes" for Be-thel,
but said people are "more
critical [of art] here, because the
moral issue [of what is 'Christian]
is involved." When that happens,
she cautioned, "We must not be-come
alienated from fellow Chris-tians,
but be absolutely sure
you're supposed to be making that
kind of work."
Wohl has experienced this criti-cism
often, as "even in secular cir-cles
I tend to make controversial
art." The work she shows her
class she knows will create contro-versy,
but here her relationships
with her viewers are "more inti-mate."
She enjoys the "open for-um"
of the classroom and wants
"to be there to experience their
reaction."
Wohl has been actively involved
in the Campus Church in Minnea-polis,
for several years. She has
travelled several times to Frank-furt,
Germany with a team from
the church to do evangelistic and
youth work.
Practicing her German is one
by Shari Goddard
Pastor Jim Spickelmier will
spend next year working on his
doctorate at the University of
Minnesota. "I think I'm going to
grow a beard and wear blue
jeans," Spickelmier said chuck-ling,
as he leaned back dressed in
his three-piece suit.
The sabbatical, coming after
five years at Bethel, is one year
early. "My program at the U is at
the stage where I have to be over
there," Spickelmier said. He
hopes to finish his classwork and
thesis on social and cognitive de-velopment
of religiously oriented
college students by the fall of '81.
Spickelmier has been planning
for two years to take next year
hobby she doesn't get to do much,
she said. She also likes to
read—especially philosophy.
Wohl claims, "You can't stop
once you start."
off, but received final approval
from the Board of Regents this
year. "When I hired the staff last
summer, I hired in mind that I'd
be gone. I wanted to give the staff
one year to train."
Two men will fill the campus
pastor position next year. The
Rev. Leland Eliason, assistant to
the dean and director of field edu-cation
at the seminary, and David
Horn, director of residence life
and residence director of Bodien,
will each take part of the respon-sibility.
Eliason will speak in Wednes-day
chapels. "Lee is known as
one of the best relational preach-ers
in the Twin Cities," Spickel-mier
said. Eliason was pastor of
Spickelmier see p. 6
Piper accepts senior pastorate
Film-maker Wohl instructs 3-D students
Pastor Jim leaves
to complete Ph.D.
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Last weekend the theatre arts
department premiered its third
production of the season, Arthur
Miller's, "The Crucible." It is in-deed
a production that the depart-ment
and the school can be proud
of.
The story centers around 17th-century
New England settlers and
their invented problem of witch-craft
in their community. As the
story unfolds, this problem grows
into epidemic proportions and au-dience
members suddenly realize
that their palms have grown
strangely clammy.
It is hard drama to watch—
downright uncomfortable in
parts. People are condemned by
"the righteous" as the audience
looks on. Families are torn apart
and lovers separated. All of this
happens in the name of religion.
The most frightening thing of
all is that as one watches, it is clear
that these incidents and people are
not far away from us. Sure, we
don't have witchhunts any more,
or even Red scares that people
associate with "The Crucible,"
but we do live in a society that still
has a hard time dealing with many
situations that we ourselves
create, and that is what "The Cru-cible"
speaks about.
During the performance you
may find yourself laughing at,
things that just are not funny—the
tension is tremendous. You may
find yourself loving several of the
characters, yet hating the situa-tions
that they are in. This show
goes far beyond entertainment. It
challenges you. It is indeed a
highlight of the school year.
It must be mentioned that the
strength of this cast has not often
been seen at Bethel. So often a
large cast has holes in it. After all,
not every character can be strong.
However, this cast is truly excel-lent,
and did a convincing job.
Outstanding performances were
given by Leslie Peterson, Joel Ja-cobs,
Dan Runion and Dorothy
Holstrom, who could steal your
heart with her convincing Eliza-beth
Proctor.
Director Jeffrey S. Miller—
along with the cast—has done
another outstanding job with this
production. The department has
something to be proud of—that
has been stated twice. "The Cruci-ble"
is fantastic. If there tickets
left, get one. Don't miss this mas-terpiece.
April
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Hunger Awareness Conference at Bethel College,
18, 19
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Strong cast backs "The Crucible"
Campus will
live despite
summer lag
by Suzi Wells
Bethel's campus will be busy
again this summer, according to
Bruce Kunkel, director of admin-istrative
services. Summer housing
at Fountain Terrace and Silver-crest,
temporary housing on cam-pus
and summer conferences and
workshops are in Kunkel's plans
for the summer.
Summer apartment rental will
be available for students who wish
to live in Fountain Terrace or Sil-vercrest
this summer. The fur-nished
apartments will cost $255
per month (per apartment, not per
person, Kunkel stressed) and utili-ties
will be included.
Apartment dwellers will need to
have their own mode of transpor-tation,
and a $100 deposit will be
due on May 15. Apartments will
be leased until August 31, and Be-thel
students can move into hous-ing
after classes end and apart-ments
are available at the end of
May.
On-campus housing will be
available to friends of Bethel or
friends of Bethel students. These
guests may stay in townhouses for
$6 per person per night. Kunkel
said that people who need to
house wedding guests or have fa-mily
reunions may take advantage
of this "hostel" option.
Summer conferences and work-shops
will be held on Bethel's
campus this summer, also. These
include basketball camps, youth
conferences, classes for Bethel
alumni, and Elderhostel, an edu-cational
program for senior citi-zens.
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How must we respond
to a hungry world?
by Ted Lewis
A fable: A noble king once governed a happy kingdom. But one year
the king grew unhappy because he felt his food supply was wanting. He
summoned all the landlords and decreed, "whoever brings me more
food shall feast with me." Delighted by this proposal, the landlords set
out to require more food from their peasants.
After a year was spent, the peasant farmers had little food left over
for their families. During the harsh winter they all died. And because
only the peasants knew how to grow food and tend the livestock, every-one
else in the kingdom starved to death. And having no taste for wild
berries and rabbit's meat, the king was among the last to die.
A person unaware of a banana peel in his path steps on it and slips.
An aware person, however, is presented with a choice: to act as if the
peel didn't exist, or to act because it does exist. Awareness demands
responsibility. And responsibility demands- some form of response.
When you watch a friend shoplift a camera, you must respond: stay
quiet or speak out.
Rabbi Prinz from Berlin once commented on Germany's response to
Hitler's Holocaust. "The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most
tragic problem is silence." A nation of silent onlookers in the presence
of evil or injustice is frightening.
The United States faces an extremely complex issue: world - hunger
and starvation. By and large, Americans are aware that the problem ex-ists;
the effects are visible. But Americans are unaware of the unseen
causes of world hunger. They support attempts to eliminate the spider's
web which ensnares its starving prey, but they overlook the spider itself
which must be killed.
In his book "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger," Ron Sider asserts
that American consumption is a major part of that "spider." Aware-ness
of the root causes of world hunger is more important than mere
recognition of worldwide starvation. Therefore, we need to be informed
of the facts which Sider has collected.
Imagine that the world is a large room filled with one hundred people.
Six of them are Americans who own 33 per cent of the world's re-sources.
Twenty-four people are either starving or malnourished. The
rich third claim 87 per cent of the world's Gross National Product, leav-ing
the poor two-thirds with 13 per cent.
From 1972 to 1974, oil and grain prices tripled, due to escalating in-flation
and the affluence of rich nations. Poor nation farmers couldn't
afford gas to run irrigation pumps for their fields of grain. Millions of
poor people in those lands, having spent 80 per cent of their budget on
food, found themselves in a vice: pay three times as much or starve. Mil-lions
died.
Americans use five times more grain than people in developing coun-tries.
Our livestock eats most of that grain and we eat the meat. The live-stock
of our rich countries eat as much grain as presently available to the
entire population of India and China!
Moreover, the United States is the largest importer of beef. Consider
Honduras which exports large amounts of beef to America. When we
raised the import quota of Honduras to get more beef, the wealthy Hon-durans
(comprising .3 per cent of the population, while owning 27.4 per
cent of the farm land) benefited the most by selling more of their beef to
us. But the poor farmers must have more land in order to profit and sur-vive.
Tragically, the oppressive regime and wealthy elite injustly sup-press
the poor. Hence, starvation results.
Fifty to 75 per cent of all Honduran children, from ages one to four,
die from malnutrition. Who is responsible for those deaths? The af-fluent
Hondurans? The American companies which support those elite?
We Americans who eat their beef?
Granted, the problem is not simple. If we all stopped eating beef, the
injust economic and political structures would still continue. Ironically,
our beef consumption paves the road towards many of our heart dis-eases.
Sider says, "While lack of food destroys millions in poor lands,
too much food devastates millions in the affluent countries."
American values ignite a very persuasive desire to seek for more than
we have. Advertising equates fulfillment with everything money can
buy. Competitiveness compels us to climb the social and material lad-ders.
Affluent societies are never content. By nature they must receive
more and more. So how do we justify our affluence?
Ultimately, these issues relate to our lifestyle, because how we live af-fects
these issues. But how willing are we to alter our way of living?
On April 18 and 19, a World Hunger Conference will be conducted at
Bethel. Qualified guest speakers and various seminars will equip par-ticipants
with a deeper understanding of the hunger issue. Practical
lifestyle alternatives will be explored. Information or registration can be
obtained through P.O. 1672, or by calling 638-6788 (from 1 to 3, Mon-day
through Friday). This conference is highly recommended, even for
faculty and outsiders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower wisely stated, "The degree of our sacrifice in
feeding the hungry, is the degree our, understanding the world today."
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Hoswell: senate has big role in students' actions
Recently the Clarion inter-viewed
student government presi-dent
Steven Hoswell about the ac-complishments
of student senate
this year. Vice President Sue
Stone was unavailable for corn-ment.
Clarion: What have you accom-plished
that you had on your plat-form
last year?
Hoswell: We tried our best to
do everything we promised and
everything has been accomplished
in one form or another. Things
we've pushed for in the campaign
include the reorganization of re-gistration.
We worked with the re-gistrar
to reorganize registration
in order to get the Roster out on
time.
Greg Kaihoi did a good job on
the Roster. Everything was ga-thered
at the same time at registra-tion.
Clarion: Wasn't one of your
goals to get the Student Directory
out at the same time as the Ros-ter?
Hoswell: Because of all the dif-ferent
things that were going on at
the beginning of the year, the stu-dent
directory had to take a lower
priority. We were going to incor-porate
it into the Roster, but the
budget wouldn't account for that.
That was the main reason it was
such a low priority. We promised
that the Roster would come out
earlier this year, and it did.
Clarion: Do you think it was
worthwhile to put out the Student
Directory at this late time?
Hoswell: Even though it came
out late, it's something that can be
used for over a year. They don't
have to come out with a new Stu-dent
Directory: students can still
use it because 75 per cent of the
people will still be here. It will be
useful to students next year.
There's a lot of work that goes
into the student directory, and
senators found it difficult to put
time into that because of all the
other commitments they had. This
was the main reason it came out
later: there were so many other
things senate was doing earlier in
the year. This was the first year
that a student directory of this
size came out, and of course
there will always be room for im-provement.
Clarion: Did a lot of students
take advantage of getting new IDs
with more information on it?
Hoswell: Well, the freshmen
got the new ones. About 25-30 per
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cent of upperclassmen changed
their IDs. The old ones were per-fectly
good, but there was just
more information on the new
ones.
The IDs were new because of
student senate: they were more va-lid
and personal. You could have
your birthday, social security
number and signature on it. Com-ing
down to the senate office to
get the IDs validated cut down on
long lines at the banking window.
A lot of work went into planning
this with the business office.
The book board was one of the
main things that student senate ac-complished
this year. Students al-ways
complain about the book-store
and the buy-back policy.
With the book board, students
can sell their books to other stu-dents.
They can sell their books at
prices they think are appropriate.
Clarion: How has senate made
itself known in the student body?
Hoswell: The senate fact sheet,
the bulletin board and the radio
show we had first semester got out
to the student body what we were
doing.
Clarion: What other goals have
you accomplished this year?
Hoswell: A transfer student
could be elected to office this
year. This, as with any new pro-gram,
could be shaky for the first
1-2 years. Once it becomes esta-blished
it will be an institution.
We didn't have the response that
we wanted in the transfer elec-tions,
but I think it will grow into
a viable position on senate.
Clarion: What response have
you had to the Reader this year?
Hoswell: The senate before ours
voted to bring it back and have
senate be the sole sponsor of the
Twin Cities Reader. Having the
Reader has been the bone of con-tention
with a lot of people. Some
people feel that it is morally de-generative
and we should just
boot it out of campus, others feel
that it has a lot of fine qualities.
I think the Reader should stay
because if you draw the line and
say you can't have the TC Reader,
you'll have to draw the line and
say you can't have "Time," the
Minneapolis Tribune, or televi-sion
in the rec room where people
watch Three's Company and soap
operas. If we have to get rid of the
Reader because of the back page,
then we'll have to get rid of all
kinds of "foreign influences."
I think people are overreacting
by saying people will stumble.
They see the problem with the
Reader, but they don't see the
problems with the TV set and
other publications that are avail-able
in the library. I'm not con-doning
those things that are found
in the back, but people who have
come in the senate office say they
only read it for the movie or book
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Clarion: Does senate have more
credibility this year than in past
years? Do students know what
senate is doing?
Hoswell: I think students know
more of what's going on with sen-ate
because of the fact that they're
seeing some of the things that sen-ate
is doing. With the TC Reader
here, with the book board going
up, with the birthday and student
directories, students can see what
senate is doing. Student senate has
a big role in the students' actions
every day; senate approves the
people who run KABY, the Clar-ion,
Passages and the Roster.
Clarion: If you could have
spent your money differently this
year, how would you spend it?
Hoswell: I think more money
should have gone into the intra-mural
program. That was part of
our platform. It only received a
minimal amount, and I feel badly
about that. The reason there
wasn't more money given to them
is because the bill was presented
late in the year, and the money we
gave was practically all we could
give, so I would like to see more
money spent on the intramural
program because it definitely
needs to be upgraded.
North St. Paul Baptist before he
came to Bethel in 1972. He has in-terim
pastored at least one church
almost every year since then and is
now interim pastor at Blooming-ton
Baptist. "This will be my in-terim
[pastorate] next year," Elia-son
said.
Pastor Jim Spickelmier
It's "Spirit Week" as I'm sure
you all know! Did you get your ice
cream cones on your "special"
days? We hope so!
We also hope and pray that the
verses in your P.O.'s were benefi-cial
to your spiritual growth. Our
idea of Spirit Week was to place
emphasis on both the spiritual as-pects
of our lives and the school
spirit we all should have as Bethel-ites.
SSSSH will take place in the
gym on Saturday evening at 8
p.m. for all of you spirited peo-ple!
SSSSH stands for "Super Spe-cial
Spirit Spectacular Happen-ings,"
and that is just what Sa-turday
evening will be for all of
you who join us.
Students from Northwestern
It's important for students to
realize that we fund groups like
SMP, CDC, Campus Crusade and
SSM.
This year senate has set policies
for KABY and voted monies to
bring KABY up to its present stan-dards.
It was because of senate
that KABY got off the ground as a
viable medium.
One thing that I'm extremely
happy about is the relationship
that student senate has with Presi-dent
Lundquist, Dean Brushaber
and the student affairs office.
There is such open communica-tion
there that any problem can be
discussed. This relationship has
been developed ever since the flat-fee
fiasco (in 1978, when Bethel
went to a flat-fee rather than per
course tuition, and the admini-stration
reported this to students
in the spring).
Being student government
president this year has been the
most important thing that has
happened to me at Bethel. I have
learned so much about admini-stration,
and working with peo-ple.
It was the best educational as-pect
of my four years at Bethel. In
the classroom you learn theory.
This experience has been putting
feet on textbooks.
Horn will coordinate the chapel
program and work with student
counseling. "I didn't anticipate
it," Horn said of his job offer. He
has no seminary training and says
he has no particular intention to
get any. "I guess we're hiring him
because he has all of the intuitive
gifts necessary," Spickelmier said,
giving Horn's warmth and good
student relations as examples.
The tone of chapel next year
will probably be similar to this
year, according to Horn. "I don't
think the major role of chapel
should be to entertain, on the
other hand I don't think it should
be a dirge." Chapel attendance is
one problem he wants to work
with. "Chapel will be a fresh thing
for me and I hope in some ways
that will come across," he said.
College will share in the fun of
skits, games, movies, special mu-sic,
and a sing-a-long. Of course,
we can't forget the root beer floats
that will top off SSSSH.
This "spirited" evening will be
available to you at a mere cost of
99 cents per person or $1 for
two (in other words, bring a
friend)! You'll want to be there.
Next weekend, we get to leave
for Spring Break ! Yeeeaaahhh!!!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy it! (But
don't forget to come back!)
When you get back, we will
have the Randy Stonehill and
Daniel Amos Concert that Friday
night, April 11 in the Bethel gym
at 8 p.m. Tickets will be on sale
in the Campus Coordinator's of-fice.
See you then! '
Spickelmier from p. 4
Spirit Week emphasizes
both aspects of growth
Conducted by Dr. Robert Berglund, Bethel's College Choir will perform April 17 at Orchestra
Hall.
Choir performs at 'Hall' April 17
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Track finishes well
among conference foes
The nationally-acclaimed Be-thel
Choir will present a concert at
Orchestra Hall (1111 Nicollet
Mall) in Minneapolis on Thurs-day,
April 17 at 8 p.m.
Conducted by Dr. Robert Berg-lund,
the choir has developed an
extensive repertoire, ranging from
the Renaissance to the 20th Cen-tury.
This year's concert includes
a work written for the Bethel
Choir by Leland B. Sateren.
The 64-voice choir will open the
concert with works by Renais-sance
composers Perti and Vic-toria.
J.S. Bach's motet #3, "Jesu,
Meine Freude", and John Beck's
"Three Prophesies from Isaiah"
will follow as two of the major
works on the program.
"Meditations on the Seven
Last Words," a composition writ-ten
expressly for Dr. Berglund and
by Greg Kuntz
The Bethel varsity tennis team
will face an early test when they
compete in an invitational meet at
the University of Wisconsin at
LaCrosse, March 28. The Royal
netmen lost their only official
match of the young season at
Stout State March 12, and have
scrimmaged against the University
of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and
North Hennepin Community Col-lege.
This season holds a tough
schedule for Bethel's third season
in the MIAC conference.
First year head Coach Mark
Norlander said that the racketeers
have a well balanced line up.
"There are good attitudes on
the team and we have started ear-lier
than we ever have before," he
said. 'There is more dedication."
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the Bethel Choir by Composer/
Conductor Leland B. Sateren, will
be a featured work of the concert.
A series of spirituals and hymn-arrangements,
followed by Paul
Tschesnokoff's "0 Lord God",
will bring the evening's concert to
a close.
Tickets for the Thursday, April
17 concert may be purchased at
the door, for $5, $4, $3 for adults,
$2 for student/senior citizen.
Tickets may be purchased in ad-vance
from Orchestra Hall or
Dayton's or by calling 371-5656.
Bethel students may obtain tick-ets
in the Public Relations Office,
LR 325. This appearance at Or-chestra
Hall is just one of the
choir's recent highlights.
Annual tours have taken the
choir throughout the United
States and Western Europe. Per-
The Royals lost only two play
ers off the varsity from last sea-son.
One is the coach himself, and
Steve Kettlekamp is out with
shoulder problems. Returning for
the fourth consecutive season are
Steve Brown and Pete Nelson.
Greg Kuntz also returns after a
year off. Back from last year are
Kirk Smith, Randy Englund,
Wayne Abbott and Mark Reason-er.
Strong starters this season are
Mark Johnson, Dave Leenhouts,
and Mike Kim, in his first year at
Bethel. Balancing out the squad
are cannonball server Gordie
Gottfred, Kent Peterson, and
Dyer Davis. Nearly half the
squad are seniors, so this is a year
of experience and a year of pre-paration
for the underclassmen.
The stiffest competition will be
Will the young gentleman
who came to the masquerade
dressed as Zorro please return
the Land Rover and remove the
Jaguar from the putting green.
There will be no inquiries.
formance opportunities abroad
have included singing in Paris'
Notre Dame Cathedral, perform-ing
on state television in West Ber-lin,
and recording a broadcast for
Radio Free Europe.
The choir has appeared with the
Minnesota Orchestra in New
York's Carnegie Hall and Chica-go's
Orchestra Hall. Recent Min-nesota
Orchestra concerts at Min-neapolis'
Orchestra Hall have fea-tured
the choir in Faure's "Re-quiem"
and Ravel's "Daphnis
and Chloe".
Recordings by the choir include
Handel's "Messiah" and several
releases by Tempo Records,
among them being an album of
spirituals and "Above All
Names", a series of hymn ar-rangements
by Berglund.
Gustavus Adolphus, St. Olaf, St.
John's, Hamline, and St. Thomas
as usual. The netmen will be on
the road for two matches after
spring break and then have se-ven
of the next ten matches at
home, including a doubleheader
showdown against Gustavus and
Augsburg April 26th. The confer-ence
meet will be held at St. Olaf
May 2-3.
The doubles teams have been
stronger, with every match close,
often going to the tie-breaker.
Paired up at the moment are
Smith and Abbott, Brown and
Englund, Leenhouts and Nelson,
and Kuntz and Kim.
"Because we're Bethel we want
to be a team of Christians who
happen to be tennis players, and
not just tennis players who hap-pen
to be Christians," said Nor-lander.
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Although no scores were kept,
Bethel's track team unofficially
placed third at the MIAC indoor
track meet. St. Olaf finished first
and Hamline second.
"It shows real promise towards
the official championship out-doors,"
said Coach Leighton
Betz. "It's a good way to climax
our indoor season. Most everyone
ran well, with a number getting
their personal bests."
Four Royals did particularly
well—Paul Otto, Greg Stipe, Phil
Asay; and Keith Johnson. Otto
won two races, the 176 yd. and
300 yd., setting a conference in-door
meet record in both. His 31.8
sec. in the 300 was also a meet re-cord.
The pole vault was won by Stipe
at 14'0", which tied the meet rec-ord.
He also finished second , in
both the long jump and triple
jump, and sixth in the high jump.
Asay, as usual, captured first in
the triple jump with a 14.12 meter
mark. In the long jump Asay was
third and in the 60 yd. high hur-dles
he finished fourth.
Blazing to a school record in the
400, Johnson won the race in 51.7
sec. The Minneapolis sophomore
participated in two other races,
finishing fourth in the 300 and
fifth in the 60.
Bethel's relays did well, too.
The mile relay team of Otto,
Asay, Johnson, and Galloway
took third in the school record
time. The distance medley relay
CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Monday—The Staley Lec-tures,
Dr. Ted Ward: "The
Implications of the Current
Moral Development Re-search"
Tuesday—The Staley Lec-tures:
"Education that is
Christian"
Wednesday—Worship ser-vice
Thursday—Audrey L. Fos-ter,
Voice of Calvary
Friday—Pastor Spickelmier
(Mark Boyer, Paul Rynders, Don
Hauser, and Ross Allen) took
third also, while the two mile relay
team of Randy Bostrom, John
Burton, Hauser, and Rynders
placed fourth.
In addition, Galloway and Joel
Rude placed fifth and sixth in the
600 with Rude running his person-al
best. A personal best 13'0" put
Scott Lumby in sixth in the pole
vault.
Other personal bests include
Jim Feleen in the 1500 and 2 mile,
Dwight Newman in the 1500 (ty-ing
a school record), Barry Jass in
the 60 and 300, Burton in the
1000, and Wendell Geary in the
1000.
With the indoor season con-cluded,
the team will rest up be-fore
traveling to Arkansas during
spring break.
letters
New era of quality
leadership merits
praise and thanks
Dear editor,
On April 1, the new student
body representatives will take of-fice
and start to work on fulfilling
their campaign promises. At this
time, I would like to thank the
outgoing president and vice presi-dent,
Steven Hoswell and Sue
Stone, for fulfilling their cam-paign
promises.
The outgoing executive board
has been the most active and visi-ble
in student representative of
any other that I have experienced
while here at Bethel. They have
ushered in a new era of quality
leadership that we can only hope
will continue in the future. Again,
thanks!
Joe Donaldson
Tennis team drops first match
Bethel Events
Today, March 21
Drama
"The Crucible," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Birthday
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday, March 22
Sports
Women's track at Winona
Drama
"The Crucible," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Tuesday, March 25
Film Forum
"Metropolis," in FA 313 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 29
Sports
Women's track at UMD, 1 p.m.
Spring Break begins
sports Page 8
Positive attitudes
plus for softball
by Paul Johnson
The Bethel baseball team will
open the 1980 baseball season
with a new coach and a chance to
win an MIAC conference cham-pionship.
The return of quality
players from last year combined
with new coach Chub Reynolds
should make for an exciting sea-son.
One key returning player for the
by Ken Wanovich
The women's track team travel-led
to Northfield last Friday for
the second time this season, and
placed second among conference
teams at the St. Olaf Invitational
track meet.
Eleven teams participated in the
meet. Bethel finished fifth behind
conference power St. Olaf, Uni-versity
of Northern Iowa, St.
Cloud, and Mankato.
Jennifer Burgess took first
place in the 60-yard hurdles, set-ting
another new indoor record
for Bethel with a time of :8.82.
Burgess also had the previous in-door
record of :9.05 which she
had set earlier in the season.
Sara Barker finished third in the
shot put, but was first among con-ference
competitors with a throw
of 11.384 meters. "It was a good
chance to see the competition in
our conference that I will be up
against in the state meet," said
Barker. "The competition was
really close, but that is good for
me." Barker's conference rival,
Dietz, a freshman at St. Thomas,
finished inches behind in fifth
place.
Lynn Severson and Wendy
Norberg also set new indoor re-cords
for Bethel. Severson placed
second in the 300-yard dash with a
time of :39.0, beating her previous
record of :40.1. Norberg did not
place in the meet, but also beat her
previous record of 12:10 in the
Royals will be outfielder Paul
Lindberg. Last season Lindberg
was Bethel's leading hitter and
won all-conference honors. The
only other player to receive such
recognition from last year's
squad was pitcher Tom Weko.
Weko will also be back to con-tribute
to what could be the deep-est
pitching staff in Bethel history.
Dave Fauth and Jeff Wilson are
Bethel's other two probable start-two-
mile run with a time of 11:58.
Other events in which Bethel
placed included the two-mile re-lay,
the 4 X 1 lap relay, the long
jump, and the mile relay.
"St. Olaf put on a good meet,"
said Barker. "Their men's track
team was there dressed in suits,
and helped run the meet. They
also had a trumpet quartet play a
processional before one of the
men ran around the track with a
torch to begin the meet. It was
really inspiring."
The indoor season ends today
with the teams travelling to Wino-na
for an individual meet. Upon
returning from spring break, the
outdoor season starts with
Bethel's only home meet, April
12, which is a men's and women's
invitational meet to be held at
Ramsey High School.
Still weakened by an illness he
had the prior week, Paul Frandsen
lost in the quarterfinals of the
NAIA national tournament at
Hays, Kansas. Ahead most of the
match, Bethel's MVP lost in the
last few seconds 14-13 to a wrest-ler
from Fairmont State of West
Va.
Lonnie Holmgren, Mike Ander-son,
and Russ Reynolds all were
ers.
The Royals show good depth at
every position. "We were con-cerned
about not having any
catchers returning from last year
but we now have four catchers and
we have depth," said Coach Rey-nolds.
The four catchers are Jay Torn-quist,
Dave Mitroff, Brad Flater
and Bruce Vogel.
Other positions where the Roy-als
show good depth are at first
base with Fauth, Mark Whitte-more
and Jim Creel. Craig Jucht,
Rick Bachofner and Bob Dalberg
are at second base.
by Steve Erickson
With no major surprises, the
brief IM Open League basketball
season came to an end last week as
the 2nd Chapter of Axe and
Homesick Hicks claimed cham-pionships.
2nd Chapter—an exemplary IM
team, showing sportsmanship and
having fun, as well as talent, kept
its record perfect by defeating pre-viously
unbeaten Gold Crawl
85-59 in the "A" League final.
Junior Dan Dye led the way for
the Axemen, scoring a league sea-son
high 42 points. It was the
highest total in recent IM history
except for performances by Steve
"Hoss" Carrigan when he with
the Butchers. He was aided by
defeated in the first round.
In addition to claiming the
MVP award, Frandsen collected
trophies for the most pins and
takedowns over the length of the
season. Reynolds was named the
most improved wrestler while
Holmgren was given recognition
as the hardest working member of
the team.
Next year's captains will be
Greg Heinsch and Greg Widmer.
by Carol Madison
With an infield of returning
starters and a large turnout of ea-ger
and experienced freshmen,
Coach Marcia LaRock has high
hopes for a successful softball sea-son.
"I'm impressed with the team
attitude," said LaRock. "The
team is willing to work and every-one
is supportive of each other.
That kind of an attitude can take
us to the top of our potential."
Three infield spots will be han-dled
by returning starters. Sopho-more
Julie Stake is scheduled to
take care of third base, and senior
Shortstop features Mark Fred-rickson,
Rich Graves, and Tom
Weko, and at third base the Roy-als
have Mitch Duininck, Pete
Parker and Brad Hater. Bethel
will also be strong in the outfield
with Bob Giddings, Lindberg and
Earl Johnson, all returning from
last year. The newcomers will be:
Gary Shibrowski, Scott Andrus,
Lewis Schultz, and Duane Ander-son.
Coach Reynolds seems to think
the Royals have a good shot at the
conference title, "Gustavus is the
team to beat, but we'll be right
there," he said.
Brian Doten, who contributed 21
points and dished out numerous
assists.
Other winning team members
were Pete Kramka, John Priest-ley,
Mark Johnson, Steve John-son,
and Doug Hage.
Gold Crawl, who missed
George Palke (although he would
not have been nearly enough to
put them on top), was paced by
transfer Tom Moseley's 22 points.
He scored many of his baskets on
off-balance shots from the out-side.
Mark Stevens added 14,
most of them in the second half,
and Phil Aune had 12.
The victory was sweet revenge
for Doten and Dye, since they lost
to the Faculty—containing Aune,
Palke, and Stevens in the Closed
League playoffs.
2nd Chapter may not be
through for the season as IM offi-cials
are trying to set up a game
with the seminary champs.
To get to the finals, the winners
beat Irresistable Untouchables,
who had earlier defeated P.G. Do-zers.
Gold Crawl beat the Clippers
after the Clippers had knocked
Systematic Theology out of the
playoffs. -
In one of the best played "B"
League finals ever, Homesick
Hicks edged out of the Rim Ben-ders
49-46. The game was decided
Robyn Erbst will be next to her at
short stop. Tammy Miller, sopho-more,
will cover second base. Re-turning
sophomore Lorri Brace,
whose speed acccounted for sev-eral
stolen bases last year, will
help out in the outfield:
The rest of the lineup will con-sist
of freshmen, and several are
backed by strong high school ex-perience.
Laura Kreutzfeldt, from
Spring Lake Park, was all-confer-ence
for two years as a pitcher,
and will assume that position for
Bethel. Julie Murphy, a quick and
aggressive player, is training in at
catcher.
Kim Schmidt will see action at
first base, as will Chris Johnson in
the outfield. Other potential out-field
starters include Becky Bruss,
Lucy Laird, Cindy Almquist, Gail
Heinsch and Mary Cook. Nancy
Dubert, sophomore, is working at
first base. Nancy Albright will as-sume
manager responsibilities.
"We have a good solid infield,
and I expect the freshmen to de-velop
quickly," said LaRock.
"The key will be to develop a
good defensive outfield."
The Royals will start action on
April 10 with a home game against
St. Thomas at 2:30 p.m. They will
then play Carleton and St. Olaf in
a doubleheader at home, starting
at 10 a.m. All home games will be
played at Perry Park.
in closing moments, Lewis
Schultz's basket with 17 sec. re-maining
putting the Hicks ahead
48-46.
The Rim Benders came down
the court, worked for a shot, and
when it was not there, they called
a timeout with 3 sec. left. But,
having used all their alloted time-outs,
they were given a technical
foul. Hicks gained possession of
the ball as well, sealing the vic-tory.
The taller Hicks led 28-22 at the
half but fell behind in the second
half as the quicker R.B.'s, led by
Neil Kaiser, took control. Kaiser
finished with 22. Brad Smuland
had 16 and controlled the back-boards
for the winners while Tony
Cairns tossed in 13.
The rest of the winning team in-cluded
Schultz, Allen Nelson,
Randy Erickson, Craig Johnson,
Thor Hansen, Brian Anderson,
and Kerry Benjamin.
Both teams went undefeated
through the season. The Hicks
nipped BMOC to get to the finals
while R. B. knocked off Five
Speed in overtime.
IM volleyball got underway this
week, with a record 40 teams par-ticipating,
26 in "A" League and
14 in "B" League. Teams to
watch out for are the Smashers,
last year's champs, Pacific Sweat-band
Internationals and Buckets
Brigade.
Track concludes indoor
with personal bests
Wrestling season ends
with NAIA tournament
Senior infielder Dan Esselstrom returns to help the Royals launch a title drive (Photo by Doug
Barkey). Baseball running for MIAC title
2nd Chapter, Homesick Hicks
triumph in IM championships

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Welcome Spring!
In the 50-degree heat wave Wednesday Paul Bjork chose to cool
off in the creek serging from snow-melt.
Gerald Healy, the one on the right, received his Ph.D. after working on it for 13 years (Photo by
Doug Barkey).
Bethel named heir to Montana tract
e Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 20 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN March 21, 1980
Healy completes doctorate
by Jay Stuart Russell and Roger
Smolik
Students on the five-year plan,
move over. Make room for Gerald
Healy. If you think getting a B.A.
degree in five or six years is a long
time, consider yourself lucky.
Gerald Healy has been working on
his Ph.D. degree for 13 years.
"It sounds like an incredible
amount of time to the average lay-man,
but I once heard a statistic
that the average Ph.D. program
takes 11 years. I just helped the
average out a little bit."
Healy, who is an associate pro-fessor
of English at Bethel, has
taught here for 21 years. Prior to
that, he was a high school teacher
in South Dakota for five years.
He received his B.A. degree
from Sioux Falls College in Eng-lish
in 1950, and his M.A. degree
in English from the University of
South Dakota. Now he has his
Ph.D. from the University of
Minnesota.
Why did Healy take a long time
to complete his degree? "I started
my Ph.D.. program late, as I
coached for 15 years; four years in
high school, and 11 years at Be-thel.
This delayed my program."
Healy said that he has had only
one sabbatical during the time he
taught at Bethel full time. "I had
many other obligations that didn't
leave much time for the writing
Dr. Ted Ward, professor of
curriculum research in the College
of Education at Michigan State
University, will speak at Bethel as
part of the Staley Lecture series on
March 24-25.
Each year the Staley series br-
Ted Ward
and study of a paper."
Healy completed the oral exam-ination
of his paper on Feb. 11,
which was the last academic hur-dle
of the process. "I felt no over-whelming
sense of relief that
you'd think there would be, be-cause
there were other deadlines
for getting the paper finally proof-read,
and getting it out to the bin-
-dery."
Healy's dissertation topic was
"Role-taking Development
Through Children's Literature."
"The study had to do with one's
capacity to see other people and
other situations from a point of
view other than one's own," he
said. "It involved taking a per-spective
different from one's
own."
"Children typically develop this
skill at ages 9, 10, and 11. The stu-dy
tried to encourage, foster, nur-ture,
and develop that skill in fifth
grade children through the
medium of children's literature."
What were the results? "It
didn't work. Research has proven
the potential for it to occur was
there, but we were trying to make
it happen; we have no way of
knowing now whether it's there
through the use of children's liter-ature.
"After my experience, after the
literature I read, I question that. I
think it's perhaps far less true. Re-search
has demonstrated that
reading itself is a very limited in-ings
a renowned scholar for a ser-ies
of chapel lectures to the cam-pus.
Ward has been a guest lectur-er
and consultant in numerous
colleges and educational institu-tions,
ranging from medical
schools to theological seminaries.
Ward is most widely known for
his research and writings in two
aspects of human development:
moral values development and
nonformal education. With the
support of the Lilly Endowment,
he established the Values Develop-ment
Education Center at MSU.
Ward has also been concerned
with third-world development and
was cited for his work in this area
by the Dag Hammerskjold Foun-dation
(Sweden) in 1975.
Some of Ward's currently avail-able
publications include: "Values
Begin at Home," Victor, 1979;
"Effective Learning Through
Nonformal Education," MSU,
1974; and "Memo for the Under-ground,"
Creation House, 1971.
Monday, March 24, Ward will
speak on "Implications of the
Current Moral Development Re-search,"
and Tuesday, "Educa-tion
that is Christian."
fluence in value making."
Healy thinks his dissertation
has been a successful study, how-ever.
"When I expressed regret at
the lack of results in the final stu-dy,
two or three of the committee
members pointed out that while I
did not get statistically significant
results, the research did contri-bute
to the body of literature that
bears on the subject..
"The fact that there were no re-sults
are results anyway. The re-sults
were that short-term inter-vention,
given these conditions,
did not work."
Now that Healy's Ph.D. pro-gram
is complete, he'll have more
time to spend on one of his favor-ite
hobbies: small farming. Healy
has an 80-acre hobby farm located
about 70 miles north of Bethel,
near Pine City.
"It's the largest gift Bethel has
ever received," said David Liss-ner,
director of campus devel-opment,
of a barren 48,640-acre
tract (nearly the size of Minnea-polis
and St. Paul) in the heart of
Big Sky country, Montana.
Suggestions for the land's use,
which have already come in, in-clude
the following: Build addi-tional
dorms (this would not be
much further than some student
housing now).... Establish a
branch campus for the study of
agriculture and mineralogy (Be-thel
A&M)....Have Doc Dalton
take a group of students out for
an Interim course, "Survival in a
Hostile Environment,"....Lease
the land out as a dumping ground
for radioactive waste or set up
conference facilities for Founders
Week, or both.
Seriously speaking, Bethel is the
trustee for this property which lies
in 3 counties, 100 miles north of
Billings, Montana. "We manage
the property and pay the owner an
income which is 6 per cent of the
value of the tract," said Lissner.
When the owner dies, the land be-comes
Bethel's.
At this time, the surface is rent-ed
to eight ranchers for use as
grazing land, and several oil com-panies
are exploring for mineral
deposits. The donor firmly be-lieves
there is oil on the property.
Valued at $3.25 million, the
land had nearly doubled in price
since Bethel was named its heir in
1976.
"I don't think there's a tree on
the place," said Lissner. This bar-ren,
dry, cattle-grazing tract is
east of the mountains, west of
good wheat-growing country,
south of one major oil field and
north of another.
What will Bethel do with the
land once they own it? "We
wouldn't consider disposing of the
land until all possibility of finding
minerals had h-en exhausted,"
Lissner said. Thi!- would be in
keeping with the owner's wishes.
The land can be seen as a form of
security for the $6 million debt Be-thel
has on this campus which has
no visible means of support.
With the uncertain state of the
economy, fluctuating inflation
rates and the prospect of mineral
deposits, the future of the land is
unknown.
Ted Ward lectures
in Staley series
Page 2
editorial
Board chooses well,
mini-editor selected
Spirit Week: Letting the Spirit do the fighting?
letters
Faulty information
Clouds policing issue
I would like to comment on
your editorial in the March 7
Clarion concerning "policing" in
athletics.
Your general intent is well taken
but I think you printed some faul-ty
information.
First of all I think that you re-ceived
some wrong information
Paul Greely concerning the hockey games in
On Tuesday evening the student senate announced selections for
media chief positions and the campus coordinators for the 1980-81
school year.
Though the media positions drew few applicants, the selection pro-cedure
of the communications board was thorough and the final ap-pointments
seem well-advised. Next year the positions will be filled as
follows:
Passages coordinator: Sandy Covert
KABY general manager: Kraig Klaudt
Clarion editor: Joy Banta
Roster coordinator: position vacant
Campus coordinators: Cindy Stipe & Frank Sanza
We applaud the work of the communications board in choosing the
media chiefs and the ad hoc committee which reviewed the many appli-cants
and chose Stipe and Sanza. We feel these people will capably fill
their positions.
The appointment of Banta was inevitable as she stands only five feet
tall. Every Clarion editor since Paul Healey has been of smaller stature
than the previous. Banta will be ably assisted by six-foot-one Jay Russell
as associate editor.
For the second year in succession no one applied to head the Roster.
Perhaps it would be better to contract production of the directory to an
outside company when student interest is lacking.
The Clarion also heartily appreciates the advent of spring.
Memorial
to two close friends of Bethel
Paul Greely
1954-1980
"Like I said, I don't believe that God is
through with me yet. But if He is, I guess you
could say I believe in tomorrow no matter what
happens. I believe in tomorrow whether or not
I'm alive on this earth or in heaven with the
Lord."
Paul Greely
May, 1977
Cameron G. Booth
1892-1980
A noted Minnesota artist, long-time friend of
Bethel and donor of modern artwork.
the Clarion
Vol. 55, No. 20 Bethel College March 21, 1980
The Clarion is published weekly by the students of Bethel Col-lege.
Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion
staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Paul Olsen, Editor
Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Art Gibbens , Production
Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager,
Jay Russell, Editorial Assistant, Carolyn Olson, Graphics
Doug Barkey, Photography Editor, Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts
Writers, run
in own back
Dear Editor,
As long as everyone else is tak-ing
time to comment on the Clar-ion's
content I'd like to get in the
discussion. Most recently I got a
kick out of Jim Feleen's letter
about Shelly Nielsen's anti-health
columns.
I look at the controversy from
two sides. I am at once a former
distance runner and a former
Clarion columnist. I gave up ser-ious
distance running to better
myself in other areas. I still enjoy
running.
I'd be happy to give up writing,
but that's my only reliable means
of financial support, and it pays
more than distance runnning. I
still enjoy reading Clarion col-umns.
There was a time when I ran
competitively. I ran to beat the
clock and my opponents. Now I
just run for enjoyment. I enjoy
the countryside, the cool morning
air and especially the healthy body
that running encourages.
And there is a time when I read
straight news. I read for informa-tion.
But I also like to read for en-joyment.
I like the creative ways
phrases can be put together, and I
.l.i.k e• t.o . l augh.
ners excel
yard, maybe
I laugh at Shelly Nielsen's col-umns.
She's funny. She's very cle-ver
in the way she says things.
Some people don't understand
that. They take it just as it ap-pears.
They don't see the value of
creative writing and of laughing at
ourselves.
In the same way some people
don't -understand running. They
see it just as it appears. It looks
like hard work and pain. They're
too lazy to find out how good it
can be. They don't see the real
value.
(Please forgive me, fellow wri-ters,
for being so dull here. I don't
want to be too clever for non-wri-ters
to understand. I'm not being
condescending. I'm trying to be
purely straightforward.)
I know Jim isn't trying to make
others feel bad by running. He's
good at it and he should run.
And I know Shelly isn't trying
to make others feel bad by what
she writes. It's all in fun. She's a
very good writer and she should
write.
And both of them will be better
off if they keep doing what they
do well and don't take ignorant
criticism personally.
Fair is fair,
David Shelley
Chicago. I question your source
of information concerning our
team being involved "'beyond the
call of duty"' in that fight. That
was a quote in the article and I
question the source greatly. Did
you receive this information from
someone who was at the game or
was it from rumors? Our team in-volvement
in the fight was inves-tigated.
I was at the game and I
certainly saw no over-involvement
on our team's part. They were at-tacked.
Secondly, you do not define
the way you use the term "polic-ing."
If it is not dealing with each
case individually, what is it? There
are rules for hockey, both teams
and MIAC, to deter the contin-uous
fights or fighting. These do
include game suspensions. Did
you check with the athletic depart-ment
about each team's "in-house
rules?"
Another one of your concerns
was that of glorifying God. The
members of the Bethel hockey
team were trying to act as peace-makers
during that fight. One of
the refs was so impressed with the
attitude of our players that he said
he didn't know what we had, but
he wanted to find out more about
it. I think that is glorifying to
God.
Also, how glorifying is it to
God to stand by and watch your
brother getting beat on by three
other people? Is it glorifying for
you to not help him to escape?
Our players were a witness in ac-tion
and in attitude in Chicago.
I suggest that in the future you
be a bit more discriminating in the
incidents you use to illustrate your
views, and also that you define
your terms from the start so as to
avoid complications.
Sincerely,
Jan Billings
Dear Editor,
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Grant helps faculty development Greenhorn
by Gloria Martin
Early this past October, Bethel
submitted a proposal to the Bush
Foundation requesting a matching
grant of approximately $10,000.
The proposal was accepted and
the money has been set aside for
Bethel. This money will assist Be-thel
in paying the personnel and
support costs involved in the pre-paration
of a two-fold program
for faculty development.
Bethel's Faculty Development
committee felt a concern for a
program which would assist the
faculty in improving themselves.
The two areas of concern in which
the program would deal with are:
1) upgrading faculty writing skills,
to in turn improve those of the
Correction
clarifies
accusation
Dear editor,
We would like to clear up a
slight misunderstanding which ap-peared
in our letter to the editor,
last week. The letter should
have been written as follows:
After attending the senate meet-ing
Tuesday we came away deeply
disappointed with the proceedings
handling the misappropriation of
funds directed by the president of
the student body. These funds
were to be used for his attendance
at an AAES convention in Los
Angeles.
While impressed by the senate's
concerned discussion of the mat-ter,
we feel that necessary action
was not taken. Perhaps the mo-tion
to relieve the president of his
duties was too extreme.
As concerned members of the
student body, we think that a pre-cedent
must be set to deal with ir-responsible
actions by our student
representatives.
This incident discredits the inte-grity
of senate and the Bethel
community and should be dealt
with as a lifestyle infraction.
With sincere concern,
Becky Dye
Susan Hanson
students, and 2) improving the
ability of the faculty to deal pro-perly
with gifted students.
Through Faculty Development
activities, attempts are presently
being made at dealing with these
areas of concern. However, with
only the use of Bethel funding the
program is making little progress.
With the grant from the Bush
Foundation the planning for a
large scale program can get under-way.
Shortly, Bethel will submit ano-ther
proposal requesting a grant
for the actual operation of the
program. This grant could be as
letters
Dear Editor,
The panel discussion on the
draft in Thursday's chapel turned
out to have three spokesmen who
themselves would not participate
in combat, and only one who
would. So to redress the imba-lance,
I thought I would explain in
writing why I personally am will-ing
to participate in combat, and
even to kill others if necessary, to
defend my country against aggres-sion.
My primary argument comes
from Romans 13:4. There Paul
says that the civil authority, even
in putting wrongdoers to death (to
"bear the sword" in vs. 4 must in-clude
this), is "the servant of God
to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer."
Paul says this person is "God's
servant for your good." So it is
not wrong for a Christian police-man
to kill, if necessary, to pro-tect
the lives of others; it is right.
He is "God's servant." He is not
sinning; he is doing "good," ac-cording
to God's own words.
If I became a soldier fighting to
defend my country (my neighbors,
my wife, my children), I would
think of this verse. I would pray
that God would help me to
remember that even in killing to
stop evil aggression, I was his
"servant," doing "good," doing
what He commanded me to do.
Remembering this, I would do it
with a clear conscience, and, I
think, with God's full approval.
I do not think this would be ea-
/
much as $180,000 over a period of
three years, which would give Be-thel
$60,000 annually to assist in
the program's operating costs.
Bethel is very much aware of
the constant need for faculty de-velopment
growth. It wants to im-prove
the education that it has to
offer through programs that will
concentrate on specific, clearly
laid-out needs.
The upcoming program to assist
faculty members in improving
themselves will not only enrich the
knowledge of faculty members,
but also enrich the educational ef-ficiency
of the institution as a
whole.
sy. I remember how I felt a strong
revulsion at killing even the wood-chuck
that was destroying my gar-den,
and I think that if I ever kill-ed
another human being I would
feel intense emotional turmoil
and great sorrow. This is because
there should not have to be killing
in God's creation.
Yet the existence of aggressive,
violent evil in the world makes it
necessary for God to restrain evil.
And Rom. 13 tells me that He has
chosen to do that through the use
of force by civil governments.
When using force to defend their
citizens, -they are "God's
servants" and doing "good" (vs.
14). So I would pray for strength
to do what God wanted me to do,
and I would serve Him even in the
tragic and difficult situation of
war.
Here at Bethel I have gained
new respect and appreciation for
my Christian brothers and sisters
who hold a pacifist position. I am
thankful for their deep desire to
follow Christ, and for the courage
and openness with which they
hold their position, Nevertheless,
I differ with them on their under-standing
of Scripture.
The command "you shall not
kill" (Ex. 20:13) does not prohibit
killing in war. The Hebrew verb
used here (ratsach) is never used in'
the Bible of killing in war. It is
mostly used of premeditated mur-der
and manslaughter, while other
Hebrew words are used of killing
in war. So the NIV and NASB
rightly translate Ex. 20:13, "You
shall not murder."
is in error Both enemy love and
the taking of life by government
are commanded. Therefore, the
command to love one's enemy
does not exclude killing in war,
for God is not inconsistent.
When Jesus commands turning
the other cheek (Matt. 5:39), He is
prohibiting taking personal re-venge,
or taking the law into our
own hands. This is similar to
Rom. 12:19, "Beloved, never
avenge yourselves, but leave it to
the wrath of God." Yet Paul goes
on six verses later to explain that
God's wrath can be and should be
carried out by civil goverments
(Rom. 13:4). So I cannot take the
law into my own hands and seek
personal revenge, but I can serve
as a policeman or soldier and
thereby, as "God's servant,"
"execute His wrath on the wrong-doer."
Can a Christian be a soldier and
still obey God? Certainly. Corne-lius,
a Roman centurion, was a
"devout man who feared God"
(Acts 10:2), and Peter im-plied
that he was one who "does
what is right" (Acts 10:35). When
soldiers asked John the Baptist
what they should do to repent and
obey God, he didn't tell them to
resign the military or not to kill,
but he said, "Be content with
your wages," (Lk. 3:14), this im-plying
that they should continue
being soldiers.
We must look to the life of Je-sus
for our example, but we must
look at His whole life, not just
part of it. Jesus Himself did not
serve as a policeman or soldier
while on earth the first time. But
He will someday assume that role.
He will come again with a "sharp
sword" to "smite the nations"
(Rev. 19:15), and the armies of
heaven, "arrayed in fine linen,
white and pure," will follow Him
"on white horses" (Rev. 19:14).
If you are a Christian, you will
be a part of that conquering army,
and so will I. If you will follow Je-sus
as a combat soldier then, as
His servant and doing good,
should you not also be willing to
follow Him now if your country is
attacked, serving Him as a combat
soldier, thus becoming "God's
servant" and doing "good"?
Wayne .Grudem
Assiiidni Professor of Theology-
Christians should never think
they are disobeying this com-mandment
when they, as police-men
or soldiers, must kill to de-fend
others, for this command-ment,
rightly translated, does not
prohibit that kind of killing.
Nor does the command, "love
your enemies" (Matt. 5:44), rule
out participation in war. Here I
will ask again the question no
Christian pacifist has yet answered
for me: Was it possible for Old
Testament believers to love their
neighbors as themselves (Lev.
19:18) and still put to death those
neighbors who were guilty of great
sins (Lev. 20:2)? God commanded
both of these. So was it possible to
love someone and yet stone him to
death with stones, as these verses
command?
If my pacifist friend answers
no, then I will respond that his
position makes God contradict
Himself, and such a position must
be rejected. But if my pacifist
friend answers yes, then I will re-spond
that it must also be possible
in the New Testament to love my
enemy and still with great sorrow,
put him to death if it is the only
way to keep him from taking the
lives of others. I await an answer
to this question.
It seems to me that too often
people bring their own definition
of "love" into this discussion,
and fail to let the Bible itself de-fine
what God means by love.
People assume that God's idea of
love for enemies excludes the tak-ing
of life, but the Bible itself
shows that this definition of love
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Next year if you want to learn
"arcing," a Biblical exegetic tech-nique
taught by Dr. John Piper,
associate professor of Biblical
Studies, you will have to go to
Bethlehem Baptist on a Sunday
morning.
Piper has accepted the call to be
the senior pastor of Bethlehem
Baptist Church in downtown Min-neapolis.
For Piper, the desire to
preach has risen and fallen ever
since he came to Bethel six years
ago.
Last fall while on sabbatical,
Piper started writing a book on
the ninth chapter of Romans.
During this time he studied the Bi-ble
every day, all day. As a result,
his desire to preach rose and did
not go down.
"It took the form of a desire to
proclaim the wealth that we have
in the Word and the stupendous
John Piper
reality of God," said Piper. "It
came so powerfully to me that I
felt I had to find a job where my
major task would be to proclaim
that Word."
Piper is a graduate of Wheaton
College where he majored in Eng-lish
literature. He then went to
Fuller Seminary. Through two ex-periences
there as a Sunday
School teacher and an assistant
teacher in Greek, he received a lot
of positive confirmation that God
had given him a gift to teach, and
that he should pursue that gift.
In the summer of 1974 he re-ceived
his Doctor of Theology de-gree
from the University of Mun-ich,
Germany, and came straight
to Bethel.
Last October, Piper made it
known to the Baptist General
Conference that he would consi-der
taking a church. Bethlehem
was the first to contact him, and
after candidating there, he accept-ed
their call to be senior pastor.
"I think the main thing that
they wanted was a strong pulpit
ministry," said Piper. "They've
had a strong pulpit ministry in the
past and they thought that was
crucial for the future. I suppose
they thought that would be my
forte. I see myself primarily as a
minister of the Word doing
preaching, teaching, and admin-istering:
planning, creating, lead-ing
people in worship."
Piper's goal in the liberal arts
college is to help students learn
how to think for themselves, to
dig in and interpret Scripture for
themselves.
"But there comes a time," said
Piper, "when the stuff you are
trying to help students think clear-ly
about is so preachable and so
beautiful that another form,
by Mari Broman
Once a prospective sculpture
major at the University of Min-nesota,
Bonita Wohl switched to
work for the master's degree in
film-making which eventually led
her to Bethel. Wohl teaches two
three-dimensional design classes
for Stewart Luckman who is on
sabbatical this semester.
Invited once to speak to one of
Dale Rott's classes. Wohl's major
contact with Bethel was when she
shoWed a film she had made at the
Christians in the Visual Arts
namely the form of a sermon, be-comes
more appropriate."
"I feel God has given me an ir-resistable
urge to preach the Word
in worship settings: to minister to
a flock of people and see the
Word take root there and change
lives."
Piper's preaching style will be
similar to his classroom teaching
style. In the classroom, Piper asks
questions and makes his students
do part of the answering. Behind
the pulpit, he will ask questions
and do the answering himself.
"The way I study the Bible,"
said Piper, "is to ask questions of
the text to try to get out its mean-ing.
It is natural that my sermons
will be a systematic exposition of
the meaning of Biblical texts. That
is what I think good preaching
is."
The move to the pastorate is
viewed by Piper as a permanent
move. "The prospect of devoting
myself to one flock of people and
investing myself in one place for a
lifetime is really attractive, but
then, 'not my will, but Thine be
done.' "
July 13 will be the first Sunday
for Piper behind the pulpit. "I
would like to extend an invitation
to all in the Bethel community to
visit Bethlehem," said Piper.
convention here last spring.
Having moonlighted for the
past couple of months, Wohl re-cently
finished a job as assistant to
the filth curator at the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis.
Her prior teaching experience
includes summer school at a
Canadian university and a course .
at the University of Wisconsin,
Superior. Wohl finds that stu-dents
at a Christian college are
"more willing to be idealistic with
you. You can stir up the class-room
on all different levels."
According to Wohl, this ad-vances
the development of creativ-ity,
but also has its drawbacks.
She said students tend to follow
whatever teachers say, and one
must "be careful not to give too
many answers."
Wohl has "high hopes" for Be-thel,
but said people are "more
critical [of art] here, because the
moral issue [of what is 'Christian]
is involved." When that happens,
she cautioned, "We must not be-come
alienated from fellow Chris-tians,
but be absolutely sure
you're supposed to be making that
kind of work."
Wohl has experienced this criti-cism
often, as "even in secular cir-cles
I tend to make controversial
art." The work she shows her
class she knows will create contro-versy,
but here her relationships
with her viewers are "more inti-mate."
She enjoys the "open for-um"
of the classroom and wants
"to be there to experience their
reaction."
Wohl has been actively involved
in the Campus Church in Minnea-polis,
for several years. She has
travelled several times to Frank-furt,
Germany with a team from
the church to do evangelistic and
youth work.
Practicing her German is one
by Shari Goddard
Pastor Jim Spickelmier will
spend next year working on his
doctorate at the University of
Minnesota. "I think I'm going to
grow a beard and wear blue
jeans," Spickelmier said chuck-ling,
as he leaned back dressed in
his three-piece suit.
The sabbatical, coming after
five years at Bethel, is one year
early. "My program at the U is at
the stage where I have to be over
there," Spickelmier said. He
hopes to finish his classwork and
thesis on social and cognitive de-velopment
of religiously oriented
college students by the fall of '81.
Spickelmier has been planning
for two years to take next year
hobby she doesn't get to do much,
she said. She also likes to
read—especially philosophy.
Wohl claims, "You can't stop
once you start."
off, but received final approval
from the Board of Regents this
year. "When I hired the staff last
summer, I hired in mind that I'd
be gone. I wanted to give the staff
one year to train."
Two men will fill the campus
pastor position next year. The
Rev. Leland Eliason, assistant to
the dean and director of field edu-cation
at the seminary, and David
Horn, director of residence life
and residence director of Bodien,
will each take part of the respon-sibility.
Eliason will speak in Wednes-day
chapels. "Lee is known as
one of the best relational preach-ers
in the Twin Cities," Spickel-mier
said. Eliason was pastor of
Spickelmier see p. 6
Piper accepts senior pastorate
Film-maker Wohl instructs 3-D students
Pastor Jim leaves
to complete Ph.D.
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Last weekend the theatre arts
department premiered its third
production of the season, Arthur
Miller's, "The Crucible." It is in-deed
a production that the depart-ment
and the school can be proud
of.
The story centers around 17th-century
New England settlers and
their invented problem of witch-craft
in their community. As the
story unfolds, this problem grows
into epidemic proportions and au-dience
members suddenly realize
that their palms have grown
strangely clammy.
It is hard drama to watch—
downright uncomfortable in
parts. People are condemned by
"the righteous" as the audience
looks on. Families are torn apart
and lovers separated. All of this
happens in the name of religion.
The most frightening thing of
all is that as one watches, it is clear
that these incidents and people are
not far away from us. Sure, we
don't have witchhunts any more,
or even Red scares that people
associate with "The Crucible,"
but we do live in a society that still
has a hard time dealing with many
situations that we ourselves
create, and that is what "The Cru-cible"
speaks about.
During the performance you
may find yourself laughing at,
things that just are not funny—the
tension is tremendous. You may
find yourself loving several of the
characters, yet hating the situa-tions
that they are in. This show
goes far beyond entertainment. It
challenges you. It is indeed a
highlight of the school year.
It must be mentioned that the
strength of this cast has not often
been seen at Bethel. So often a
large cast has holes in it. After all,
not every character can be strong.
However, this cast is truly excel-lent,
and did a convincing job.
Outstanding performances were
given by Leslie Peterson, Joel Ja-cobs,
Dan Runion and Dorothy
Holstrom, who could steal your
heart with her convincing Eliza-beth
Proctor.
Director Jeffrey S. Miller—
along with the cast—has done
another outstanding job with this
production. The department has
something to be proud of—that
has been stated twice. "The Cruci-ble"
is fantastic. If there tickets
left, get one. Don't miss this mas-terpiece.
April
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Strong cast backs "The Crucible"
Campus will
live despite
summer lag
by Suzi Wells
Bethel's campus will be busy
again this summer, according to
Bruce Kunkel, director of admin-istrative
services. Summer housing
at Fountain Terrace and Silver-crest,
temporary housing on cam-pus
and summer conferences and
workshops are in Kunkel's plans
for the summer.
Summer apartment rental will
be available for students who wish
to live in Fountain Terrace or Sil-vercrest
this summer. The fur-nished
apartments will cost $255
per month (per apartment, not per
person, Kunkel stressed) and utili-ties
will be included.
Apartment dwellers will need to
have their own mode of transpor-tation,
and a $100 deposit will be
due on May 15. Apartments will
be leased until August 31, and Be-thel
students can move into hous-ing
after classes end and apart-ments
are available at the end of
May.
On-campus housing will be
available to friends of Bethel or
friends of Bethel students. These
guests may stay in townhouses for
$6 per person per night. Kunkel
said that people who need to
house wedding guests or have fa-mily
reunions may take advantage
of this "hostel" option.
Summer conferences and work-shops
will be held on Bethel's
campus this summer, also. These
include basketball camps, youth
conferences, classes for Bethel
alumni, and Elderhostel, an edu-cational
program for senior citi-zens.
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How must we respond
to a hungry world?
by Ted Lewis
A fable: A noble king once governed a happy kingdom. But one year
the king grew unhappy because he felt his food supply was wanting. He
summoned all the landlords and decreed, "whoever brings me more
food shall feast with me." Delighted by this proposal, the landlords set
out to require more food from their peasants.
After a year was spent, the peasant farmers had little food left over
for their families. During the harsh winter they all died. And because
only the peasants knew how to grow food and tend the livestock, every-one
else in the kingdom starved to death. And having no taste for wild
berries and rabbit's meat, the king was among the last to die.
A person unaware of a banana peel in his path steps on it and slips.
An aware person, however, is presented with a choice: to act as if the
peel didn't exist, or to act because it does exist. Awareness demands
responsibility. And responsibility demands- some form of response.
When you watch a friend shoplift a camera, you must respond: stay
quiet or speak out.
Rabbi Prinz from Berlin once commented on Germany's response to
Hitler's Holocaust. "The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most
tragic problem is silence." A nation of silent onlookers in the presence
of evil or injustice is frightening.
The United States faces an extremely complex issue: world - hunger
and starvation. By and large, Americans are aware that the problem ex-ists;
the effects are visible. But Americans are unaware of the unseen
causes of world hunger. They support attempts to eliminate the spider's
web which ensnares its starving prey, but they overlook the spider itself
which must be killed.
In his book "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger," Ron Sider asserts
that American consumption is a major part of that "spider." Aware-ness
of the root causes of world hunger is more important than mere
recognition of worldwide starvation. Therefore, we need to be informed
of the facts which Sider has collected.
Imagine that the world is a large room filled with one hundred people.
Six of them are Americans who own 33 per cent of the world's re-sources.
Twenty-four people are either starving or malnourished. The
rich third claim 87 per cent of the world's Gross National Product, leav-ing
the poor two-thirds with 13 per cent.
From 1972 to 1974, oil and grain prices tripled, due to escalating in-flation
and the affluence of rich nations. Poor nation farmers couldn't
afford gas to run irrigation pumps for their fields of grain. Millions of
poor people in those lands, having spent 80 per cent of their budget on
food, found themselves in a vice: pay three times as much or starve. Mil-lions
died.
Americans use five times more grain than people in developing coun-tries.
Our livestock eats most of that grain and we eat the meat. The live-stock
of our rich countries eat as much grain as presently available to the
entire population of India and China!
Moreover, the United States is the largest importer of beef. Consider
Honduras which exports large amounts of beef to America. When we
raised the import quota of Honduras to get more beef, the wealthy Hon-durans
(comprising .3 per cent of the population, while owning 27.4 per
cent of the farm land) benefited the most by selling more of their beef to
us. But the poor farmers must have more land in order to profit and sur-vive.
Tragically, the oppressive regime and wealthy elite injustly sup-press
the poor. Hence, starvation results.
Fifty to 75 per cent of all Honduran children, from ages one to four,
die from malnutrition. Who is responsible for those deaths? The af-fluent
Hondurans? The American companies which support those elite?
We Americans who eat their beef?
Granted, the problem is not simple. If we all stopped eating beef, the
injust economic and political structures would still continue. Ironically,
our beef consumption paves the road towards many of our heart dis-eases.
Sider says, "While lack of food destroys millions in poor lands,
too much food devastates millions in the affluent countries."
American values ignite a very persuasive desire to seek for more than
we have. Advertising equates fulfillment with everything money can
buy. Competitiveness compels us to climb the social and material lad-ders.
Affluent societies are never content. By nature they must receive
more and more. So how do we justify our affluence?
Ultimately, these issues relate to our lifestyle, because how we live af-fects
these issues. But how willing are we to alter our way of living?
On April 18 and 19, a World Hunger Conference will be conducted at
Bethel. Qualified guest speakers and various seminars will equip par-ticipants
with a deeper understanding of the hunger issue. Practical
lifestyle alternatives will be explored. Information or registration can be
obtained through P.O. 1672, or by calling 638-6788 (from 1 to 3, Mon-day
through Friday). This conference is highly recommended, even for
faculty and outsiders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower wisely stated, "The degree of our sacrifice in
feeding the hungry, is the degree our, understanding the world today."
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Hoswell: senate has big role in students' actions
Recently the Clarion inter-viewed
student government presi-dent
Steven Hoswell about the ac-complishments
of student senate
this year. Vice President Sue
Stone was unavailable for corn-ment.
Clarion: What have you accom-plished
that you had on your plat-form
last year?
Hoswell: We tried our best to
do everything we promised and
everything has been accomplished
in one form or another. Things
we've pushed for in the campaign
include the reorganization of re-gistration.
We worked with the re-gistrar
to reorganize registration
in order to get the Roster out on
time.
Greg Kaihoi did a good job on
the Roster. Everything was ga-thered
at the same time at registra-tion.
Clarion: Wasn't one of your
goals to get the Student Directory
out at the same time as the Ros-ter?
Hoswell: Because of all the dif-ferent
things that were going on at
the beginning of the year, the stu-dent
directory had to take a lower
priority. We were going to incor-porate
it into the Roster, but the
budget wouldn't account for that.
That was the main reason it was
such a low priority. We promised
that the Roster would come out
earlier this year, and it did.
Clarion: Do you think it was
worthwhile to put out the Student
Directory at this late time?
Hoswell: Even though it came
out late, it's something that can be
used for over a year. They don't
have to come out with a new Stu-dent
Directory: students can still
use it because 75 per cent of the
people will still be here. It will be
useful to students next year.
There's a lot of work that goes
into the student directory, and
senators found it difficult to put
time into that because of all the
other commitments they had. This
was the main reason it came out
later: there were so many other
things senate was doing earlier in
the year. This was the first year
that a student directory of this
size came out, and of course
there will always be room for im-provement.
Clarion: Did a lot of students
take advantage of getting new IDs
with more information on it?
Hoswell: Well, the freshmen
got the new ones. About 25-30 per
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cent of upperclassmen changed
their IDs. The old ones were per-fectly
good, but there was just
more information on the new
ones.
The IDs were new because of
student senate: they were more va-lid
and personal. You could have
your birthday, social security
number and signature on it. Com-ing
down to the senate office to
get the IDs validated cut down on
long lines at the banking window.
A lot of work went into planning
this with the business office.
The book board was one of the
main things that student senate ac-complished
this year. Students al-ways
complain about the book-store
and the buy-back policy.
With the book board, students
can sell their books to other stu-dents.
They can sell their books at
prices they think are appropriate.
Clarion: How has senate made
itself known in the student body?
Hoswell: The senate fact sheet,
the bulletin board and the radio
show we had first semester got out
to the student body what we were
doing.
Clarion: What other goals have
you accomplished this year?
Hoswell: A transfer student
could be elected to office this
year. This, as with any new pro-gram,
could be shaky for the first
1-2 years. Once it becomes esta-blished
it will be an institution.
We didn't have the response that
we wanted in the transfer elec-tions,
but I think it will grow into
a viable position on senate.
Clarion: What response have
you had to the Reader this year?
Hoswell: The senate before ours
voted to bring it back and have
senate be the sole sponsor of the
Twin Cities Reader. Having the
Reader has been the bone of con-tention
with a lot of people. Some
people feel that it is morally de-generative
and we should just
boot it out of campus, others feel
that it has a lot of fine qualities.
I think the Reader should stay
because if you draw the line and
say you can't have the TC Reader,
you'll have to draw the line and
say you can't have "Time," the
Minneapolis Tribune, or televi-sion
in the rec room where people
watch Three's Company and soap
operas. If we have to get rid of the
Reader because of the back page,
then we'll have to get rid of all
kinds of "foreign influences."
I think people are overreacting
by saying people will stumble.
They see the problem with the
Reader, but they don't see the
problems with the TV set and
other publications that are avail-able
in the library. I'm not con-doning
those things that are found
in the back, but people who have
come in the senate office say they
only read it for the movie or book
reviews, or the editorials.
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Clarion: Does senate have more
credibility this year than in past
years? Do students know what
senate is doing?
Hoswell: I think students know
more of what's going on with sen-ate
because of the fact that they're
seeing some of the things that sen-ate
is doing. With the TC Reader
here, with the book board going
up, with the birthday and student
directories, students can see what
senate is doing. Student senate has
a big role in the students' actions
every day; senate approves the
people who run KABY, the Clar-ion,
Passages and the Roster.
Clarion: If you could have
spent your money differently this
year, how would you spend it?
Hoswell: I think more money
should have gone into the intra-mural
program. That was part of
our platform. It only received a
minimal amount, and I feel badly
about that. The reason there
wasn't more money given to them
is because the bill was presented
late in the year, and the money we
gave was practically all we could
give, so I would like to see more
money spent on the intramural
program because it definitely
needs to be upgraded.
North St. Paul Baptist before he
came to Bethel in 1972. He has in-terim
pastored at least one church
almost every year since then and is
now interim pastor at Blooming-ton
Baptist. "This will be my in-terim
[pastorate] next year," Elia-son
said.
Pastor Jim Spickelmier
It's "Spirit Week" as I'm sure
you all know! Did you get your ice
cream cones on your "special"
days? We hope so!
We also hope and pray that the
verses in your P.O.'s were benefi-cial
to your spiritual growth. Our
idea of Spirit Week was to place
emphasis on both the spiritual as-pects
of our lives and the school
spirit we all should have as Bethel-ites.
SSSSH will take place in the
gym on Saturday evening at 8
p.m. for all of you spirited peo-ple!
SSSSH stands for "Super Spe-cial
Spirit Spectacular Happen-ings,"
and that is just what Sa-turday
evening will be for all of
you who join us.
Students from Northwestern
It's important for students to
realize that we fund groups like
SMP, CDC, Campus Crusade and
SSM.
This year senate has set policies
for KABY and voted monies to
bring KABY up to its present stan-dards.
It was because of senate
that KABY got off the ground as a
viable medium.
One thing that I'm extremely
happy about is the relationship
that student senate has with Presi-dent
Lundquist, Dean Brushaber
and the student affairs office.
There is such open communica-tion
there that any problem can be
discussed. This relationship has
been developed ever since the flat-fee
fiasco (in 1978, when Bethel
went to a flat-fee rather than per
course tuition, and the admini-stration
reported this to students
in the spring).
Being student government
president this year has been the
most important thing that has
happened to me at Bethel. I have
learned so much about admini-stration,
and working with peo-ple.
It was the best educational as-pect
of my four years at Bethel. In
the classroom you learn theory.
This experience has been putting
feet on textbooks.
Horn will coordinate the chapel
program and work with student
counseling. "I didn't anticipate
it," Horn said of his job offer. He
has no seminary training and says
he has no particular intention to
get any. "I guess we're hiring him
because he has all of the intuitive
gifts necessary," Spickelmier said,
giving Horn's warmth and good
student relations as examples.
The tone of chapel next year
will probably be similar to this
year, according to Horn. "I don't
think the major role of chapel
should be to entertain, on the
other hand I don't think it should
be a dirge." Chapel attendance is
one problem he wants to work
with. "Chapel will be a fresh thing
for me and I hope in some ways
that will come across," he said.
College will share in the fun of
skits, games, movies, special mu-sic,
and a sing-a-long. Of course,
we can't forget the root beer floats
that will top off SSSSH.
This "spirited" evening will be
available to you at a mere cost of
99 cents per person or $1 for
two (in other words, bring a
friend)! You'll want to be there.
Next weekend, we get to leave
for Spring Break ! Yeeeaaahhh!!!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy it! (But
don't forget to come back!)
When you get back, we will
have the Randy Stonehill and
Daniel Amos Concert that Friday
night, April 11 in the Bethel gym
at 8 p.m. Tickets will be on sale
in the Campus Coordinator's of-fice.
See you then! '
Spickelmier from p. 4
Spirit Week emphasizes
both aspects of growth
Conducted by Dr. Robert Berglund, Bethel's College Choir will perform April 17 at Orchestra
Hall.
Choir performs at 'Hall' April 17
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Track finishes well
among conference foes
The nationally-acclaimed Be-thel
Choir will present a concert at
Orchestra Hall (1111 Nicollet
Mall) in Minneapolis on Thurs-day,
April 17 at 8 p.m.
Conducted by Dr. Robert Berg-lund,
the choir has developed an
extensive repertoire, ranging from
the Renaissance to the 20th Cen-tury.
This year's concert includes
a work written for the Bethel
Choir by Leland B. Sateren.
The 64-voice choir will open the
concert with works by Renais-sance
composers Perti and Vic-toria.
J.S. Bach's motet #3, "Jesu,
Meine Freude", and John Beck's
"Three Prophesies from Isaiah"
will follow as two of the major
works on the program.
"Meditations on the Seven
Last Words," a composition writ-ten
expressly for Dr. Berglund and
by Greg Kuntz
The Bethel varsity tennis team
will face an early test when they
compete in an invitational meet at
the University of Wisconsin at
LaCrosse, March 28. The Royal
netmen lost their only official
match of the young season at
Stout State March 12, and have
scrimmaged against the University
of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and
North Hennepin Community Col-lege.
This season holds a tough
schedule for Bethel's third season
in the MIAC conference.
First year head Coach Mark
Norlander said that the racketeers
have a well balanced line up.
"There are good attitudes on
the team and we have started ear-lier
than we ever have before," he
said. 'There is more dedication."
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the cheering and the yells,
thanks for the support. We
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the Bethel Choir by Composer/
Conductor Leland B. Sateren, will
be a featured work of the concert.
A series of spirituals and hymn-arrangements,
followed by Paul
Tschesnokoff's "0 Lord God",
will bring the evening's concert to
a close.
Tickets for the Thursday, April
17 concert may be purchased at
the door, for $5, $4, $3 for adults,
$2 for student/senior citizen.
Tickets may be purchased in ad-vance
from Orchestra Hall or
Dayton's or by calling 371-5656.
Bethel students may obtain tick-ets
in the Public Relations Office,
LR 325. This appearance at Or-chestra
Hall is just one of the
choir's recent highlights.
Annual tours have taken the
choir throughout the United
States and Western Europe. Per-
The Royals lost only two play
ers off the varsity from last sea-son.
One is the coach himself, and
Steve Kettlekamp is out with
shoulder problems. Returning for
the fourth consecutive season are
Steve Brown and Pete Nelson.
Greg Kuntz also returns after a
year off. Back from last year are
Kirk Smith, Randy Englund,
Wayne Abbott and Mark Reason-er.
Strong starters this season are
Mark Johnson, Dave Leenhouts,
and Mike Kim, in his first year at
Bethel. Balancing out the squad
are cannonball server Gordie
Gottfred, Kent Peterson, and
Dyer Davis. Nearly half the
squad are seniors, so this is a year
of experience and a year of pre-paration
for the underclassmen.
The stiffest competition will be
Will the young gentleman
who came to the masquerade
dressed as Zorro please return
the Land Rover and remove the
Jaguar from the putting green.
There will be no inquiries.
formance opportunities abroad
have included singing in Paris'
Notre Dame Cathedral, perform-ing
on state television in West Ber-lin,
and recording a broadcast for
Radio Free Europe.
The choir has appeared with the
Minnesota Orchestra in New
York's Carnegie Hall and Chica-go's
Orchestra Hall. Recent Min-nesota
Orchestra concerts at Min-neapolis'
Orchestra Hall have fea-tured
the choir in Faure's "Re-quiem"
and Ravel's "Daphnis
and Chloe".
Recordings by the choir include
Handel's "Messiah" and several
releases by Tempo Records,
among them being an album of
spirituals and "Above All
Names", a series of hymn ar-rangements
by Berglund.
Gustavus Adolphus, St. Olaf, St.
John's, Hamline, and St. Thomas
as usual. The netmen will be on
the road for two matches after
spring break and then have se-ven
of the next ten matches at
home, including a doubleheader
showdown against Gustavus and
Augsburg April 26th. The confer-ence
meet will be held at St. Olaf
May 2-3.
The doubles teams have been
stronger, with every match close,
often going to the tie-breaker.
Paired up at the moment are
Smith and Abbott, Brown and
Englund, Leenhouts and Nelson,
and Kuntz and Kim.
"Because we're Bethel we want
to be a team of Christians who
happen to be tennis players, and
not just tennis players who hap-pen
to be Christians," said Nor-lander.
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by Steve Erickson
Although no scores were kept,
Bethel's track team unofficially
placed third at the MIAC indoor
track meet. St. Olaf finished first
and Hamline second.
"It shows real promise towards
the official championship out-doors,"
said Coach Leighton
Betz. "It's a good way to climax
our indoor season. Most everyone
ran well, with a number getting
their personal bests."
Four Royals did particularly
well—Paul Otto, Greg Stipe, Phil
Asay; and Keith Johnson. Otto
won two races, the 176 yd. and
300 yd., setting a conference in-door
meet record in both. His 31.8
sec. in the 300 was also a meet re-cord.
The pole vault was won by Stipe
at 14'0", which tied the meet rec-ord.
He also finished second , in
both the long jump and triple
jump, and sixth in the high jump.
Asay, as usual, captured first in
the triple jump with a 14.12 meter
mark. In the long jump Asay was
third and in the 60 yd. high hur-dles
he finished fourth.
Blazing to a school record in the
400, Johnson won the race in 51.7
sec. The Minneapolis sophomore
participated in two other races,
finishing fourth in the 300 and
fifth in the 60.
Bethel's relays did well, too.
The mile relay team of Otto,
Asay, Johnson, and Galloway
took third in the school record
time. The distance medley relay
CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Monday—The Staley Lec-tures,
Dr. Ted Ward: "The
Implications of the Current
Moral Development Re-search"
Tuesday—The Staley Lec-tures:
"Education that is
Christian"
Wednesday—Worship ser-vice
Thursday—Audrey L. Fos-ter,
Voice of Calvary
Friday—Pastor Spickelmier
(Mark Boyer, Paul Rynders, Don
Hauser, and Ross Allen) took
third also, while the two mile relay
team of Randy Bostrom, John
Burton, Hauser, and Rynders
placed fourth.
In addition, Galloway and Joel
Rude placed fifth and sixth in the
600 with Rude running his person-al
best. A personal best 13'0" put
Scott Lumby in sixth in the pole
vault.
Other personal bests include
Jim Feleen in the 1500 and 2 mile,
Dwight Newman in the 1500 (ty-ing
a school record), Barry Jass in
the 60 and 300, Burton in the
1000, and Wendell Geary in the
1000.
With the indoor season con-cluded,
the team will rest up be-fore
traveling to Arkansas during
spring break.
letters
New era of quality
leadership merits
praise and thanks
Dear editor,
On April 1, the new student
body representatives will take of-fice
and start to work on fulfilling
their campaign promises. At this
time, I would like to thank the
outgoing president and vice presi-dent,
Steven Hoswell and Sue
Stone, for fulfilling their cam-paign
promises.
The outgoing executive board
has been the most active and visi-ble
in student representative of
any other that I have experienced
while here at Bethel. They have
ushered in a new era of quality
leadership that we can only hope
will continue in the future. Again,
thanks!
Joe Donaldson
Tennis team drops first match
Bethel Events
Today, March 21
Drama
"The Crucible," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Birthday
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday, March 22
Sports
Women's track at Winona
Drama
"The Crucible," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Tuesday, March 25
Film Forum
"Metropolis," in FA 313 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 29
Sports
Women's track at UMD, 1 p.m.
Spring Break begins
sports Page 8
Positive attitudes
plus for softball
by Paul Johnson
The Bethel baseball team will
open the 1980 baseball season
with a new coach and a chance to
win an MIAC conference cham-pionship.
The return of quality
players from last year combined
with new coach Chub Reynolds
should make for an exciting sea-son.
One key returning player for the
by Ken Wanovich
The women's track team travel-led
to Northfield last Friday for
the second time this season, and
placed second among conference
teams at the St. Olaf Invitational
track meet.
Eleven teams participated in the
meet. Bethel finished fifth behind
conference power St. Olaf, Uni-versity
of Northern Iowa, St.
Cloud, and Mankato.
Jennifer Burgess took first
place in the 60-yard hurdles, set-ting
another new indoor record
for Bethel with a time of :8.82.
Burgess also had the previous in-door
record of :9.05 which she
had set earlier in the season.
Sara Barker finished third in the
shot put, but was first among con-ference
competitors with a throw
of 11.384 meters. "It was a good
chance to see the competition in
our conference that I will be up
against in the state meet," said
Barker. "The competition was
really close, but that is good for
me." Barker's conference rival,
Dietz, a freshman at St. Thomas,
finished inches behind in fifth
place.
Lynn Severson and Wendy
Norberg also set new indoor re-cords
for Bethel. Severson placed
second in the 300-yard dash with a
time of :39.0, beating her previous
record of :40.1. Norberg did not
place in the meet, but also beat her
previous record of 12:10 in the
Royals will be outfielder Paul
Lindberg. Last season Lindberg
was Bethel's leading hitter and
won all-conference honors. The
only other player to receive such
recognition from last year's
squad was pitcher Tom Weko.
Weko will also be back to con-tribute
to what could be the deep-est
pitching staff in Bethel history.
Dave Fauth and Jeff Wilson are
Bethel's other two probable start-two-
mile run with a time of 11:58.
Other events in which Bethel
placed included the two-mile re-lay,
the 4 X 1 lap relay, the long
jump, and the mile relay.
"St. Olaf put on a good meet,"
said Barker. "Their men's track
team was there dressed in suits,
and helped run the meet. They
also had a trumpet quartet play a
processional before one of the
men ran around the track with a
torch to begin the meet. It was
really inspiring."
The indoor season ends today
with the teams travelling to Wino-na
for an individual meet. Upon
returning from spring break, the
outdoor season starts with
Bethel's only home meet, April
12, which is a men's and women's
invitational meet to be held at
Ramsey High School.
Still weakened by an illness he
had the prior week, Paul Frandsen
lost in the quarterfinals of the
NAIA national tournament at
Hays, Kansas. Ahead most of the
match, Bethel's MVP lost in the
last few seconds 14-13 to a wrest-ler
from Fairmont State of West
Va.
Lonnie Holmgren, Mike Ander-son,
and Russ Reynolds all were
ers.
The Royals show good depth at
every position. "We were con-cerned
about not having any
catchers returning from last year
but we now have four catchers and
we have depth," said Coach Rey-nolds.
The four catchers are Jay Torn-quist,
Dave Mitroff, Brad Flater
and Bruce Vogel.
Other positions where the Roy-als
show good depth are at first
base with Fauth, Mark Whitte-more
and Jim Creel. Craig Jucht,
Rick Bachofner and Bob Dalberg
are at second base.
by Steve Erickson
With no major surprises, the
brief IM Open League basketball
season came to an end last week as
the 2nd Chapter of Axe and
Homesick Hicks claimed cham-pionships.
2nd Chapter—an exemplary IM
team, showing sportsmanship and
having fun, as well as talent, kept
its record perfect by defeating pre-viously
unbeaten Gold Crawl
85-59 in the "A" League final.
Junior Dan Dye led the way for
the Axemen, scoring a league sea-son
high 42 points. It was the
highest total in recent IM history
except for performances by Steve
"Hoss" Carrigan when he with
the Butchers. He was aided by
defeated in the first round.
In addition to claiming the
MVP award, Frandsen collected
trophies for the most pins and
takedowns over the length of the
season. Reynolds was named the
most improved wrestler while
Holmgren was given recognition
as the hardest working member of
the team.
Next year's captains will be
Greg Heinsch and Greg Widmer.
by Carol Madison
With an infield of returning
starters and a large turnout of ea-ger
and experienced freshmen,
Coach Marcia LaRock has high
hopes for a successful softball sea-son.
"I'm impressed with the team
attitude," said LaRock. "The
team is willing to work and every-one
is supportive of each other.
That kind of an attitude can take
us to the top of our potential."
Three infield spots will be han-dled
by returning starters. Sopho-more
Julie Stake is scheduled to
take care of third base, and senior
Shortstop features Mark Fred-rickson,
Rich Graves, and Tom
Weko, and at third base the Roy-als
have Mitch Duininck, Pete
Parker and Brad Hater. Bethel
will also be strong in the outfield
with Bob Giddings, Lindberg and
Earl Johnson, all returning from
last year. The newcomers will be:
Gary Shibrowski, Scott Andrus,
Lewis Schultz, and Duane Ander-son.
Coach Reynolds seems to think
the Royals have a good shot at the
conference title, "Gustavus is the
team to beat, but we'll be right
there," he said.
Brian Doten, who contributed 21
points and dished out numerous
assists.
Other winning team members
were Pete Kramka, John Priest-ley,
Mark Johnson, Steve John-son,
and Doug Hage.
Gold Crawl, who missed
George Palke (although he would
not have been nearly enough to
put them on top), was paced by
transfer Tom Moseley's 22 points.
He scored many of his baskets on
off-balance shots from the out-side.
Mark Stevens added 14,
most of them in the second half,
and Phil Aune had 12.
The victory was sweet revenge
for Doten and Dye, since they lost
to the Faculty—containing Aune,
Palke, and Stevens in the Closed
League playoffs.
2nd Chapter may not be
through for the season as IM offi-cials
are trying to set up a game
with the seminary champs.
To get to the finals, the winners
beat Irresistable Untouchables,
who had earlier defeated P.G. Do-zers.
Gold Crawl beat the Clippers
after the Clippers had knocked
Systematic Theology out of the
playoffs. -
In one of the best played "B"
League finals ever, Homesick
Hicks edged out of the Rim Ben-ders
49-46. The game was decided
Robyn Erbst will be next to her at
short stop. Tammy Miller, sopho-more,
will cover second base. Re-turning
sophomore Lorri Brace,
whose speed acccounted for sev-eral
stolen bases last year, will
help out in the outfield:
The rest of the lineup will con-sist
of freshmen, and several are
backed by strong high school ex-perience.
Laura Kreutzfeldt, from
Spring Lake Park, was all-confer-ence
for two years as a pitcher,
and will assume that position for
Bethel. Julie Murphy, a quick and
aggressive player, is training in at
catcher.
Kim Schmidt will see action at
first base, as will Chris Johnson in
the outfield. Other potential out-field
starters include Becky Bruss,
Lucy Laird, Cindy Almquist, Gail
Heinsch and Mary Cook. Nancy
Dubert, sophomore, is working at
first base. Nancy Albright will as-sume
manager responsibilities.
"We have a good solid infield,
and I expect the freshmen to de-velop
quickly," said LaRock.
"The key will be to develop a
good defensive outfield."
The Royals will start action on
April 10 with a home game against
St. Thomas at 2:30 p.m. They will
then play Carleton and St. Olaf in
a doubleheader at home, starting
at 10 a.m. All home games will be
played at Perry Park.
in closing moments, Lewis
Schultz's basket with 17 sec. re-maining
putting the Hicks ahead
48-46.
The Rim Benders came down
the court, worked for a shot, and
when it was not there, they called
a timeout with 3 sec. left. But,
having used all their alloted time-outs,
they were given a technical
foul. Hicks gained possession of
the ball as well, sealing the vic-tory.
The taller Hicks led 28-22 at the
half but fell behind in the second
half as the quicker R.B.'s, led by
Neil Kaiser, took control. Kaiser
finished with 22. Brad Smuland
had 16 and controlled the back-boards
for the winners while Tony
Cairns tossed in 13.
The rest of the winning team in-cluded
Schultz, Allen Nelson,
Randy Erickson, Craig Johnson,
Thor Hansen, Brian Anderson,
and Kerry Benjamin.
Both teams went undefeated
through the season. The Hicks
nipped BMOC to get to the finals
while R. B. knocked off Five
Speed in overtime.
IM volleyball got underway this
week, with a record 40 teams par-ticipating,
26 in "A" League and
14 in "B" League. Teams to
watch out for are the Smashers,
last year's champs, Pacific Sweat-band
Internationals and Buckets
Brigade.
Track concludes indoor
with personal bests
Wrestling season ends
with NAIA tournament
Senior infielder Dan Esselstrom returns to help the Royals launch a title drive (Photo by Doug
Barkey). Baseball running for MIAC title
2nd Chapter, Homesick Hicks
triumph in IM championships